Volume 2

The anatomy of the gravid uterus. With practical inferences relative to pregnancy and labour / By John Burns.

  • Burns, John, 1774-1850.
Date:
1799
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Credit: The anatomy of the gravid uterus. With practical inferences relative to pregnancy and labour / By John Burns. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    points out its own cure. The difcrimi- nating marks of the two great {pecies of floodings * are fo eafily perceived, and the treatment is fo exactly afcertained, that, when we hear fo frequently of cafes where the termination has been fatal, we mutt afcribe this, not to the fault of our art, or the deficiency of its principles, but to the ignorance or irrefolution of him who rafhly undertakes to practife it. What fhall we think of that man who finds his patient weltering in blood, who, every time he feels the artery, per- ceives that the powers of life are rapidly declining, who fees death making a near and hafty approach, and yet neglects the neceflary examination, and that bold de- cifive practice, which, in abler hands, * Namely, where the flooding proceeds from the infer- tion of part of the placenta over the os uteri ;—and where it praceeds from a cafual feparation of the decidua, or pla- c@nta, when it is attached to its proper place.