Clinical midwifery : comprising the histories of five hundred and forty-five cases of difficult, preternatural, and complicated labour, with commentaries / by Robert Lee.

  • Lee, Robert.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Clinical midwifery : comprising the histories of five hundred and forty-five cases of difficult, preternatural, and complicated labour, with commentaries / by Robert Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    tics exhibited. The fits disappeared, and labour came on fourteen days after, and a dead child was expelled. (Case 24.) St. Marylebone Infirmary. A young woman, on the 5th July, 1833, after being twenty-four hours in la- bour with her first child, was seized with delirium and con- vulsions. Vagina rigid, hot, and tender. Os uteri not fully dilated. Copious V. S. procured no relief; the head, being beyond the reach of the forceps, was perforated and extracted. The fits immediately ceased. Consciousness was not per- fectly restored for several days. (Case 25.) A young woman, residing in Porter-street, was delivered at three a.m., the 20th May, 1828. Several convulsion fits of no great severity took place, but V. S. was performed to twenty-five ounces, and at one p.m. they had ceased, and consciousness was partially restored. She ap- peared heavy and oppressed, and complained of headache. Pulse fifty, full and strong. Ten p.m., no return of convul- sions. Recovered. (Case 26.) In December, 1829, I inspected the body of a woman who had died after suffering from puerperal convul- sions. I did not see her during life, but was informed that insensibility and convulsions had come on during labour, which was protracted. The pulse was stated to have been rapid and feeble. Delivery was completed by craniotomy, and she died comatose three days after. She was not bled. A table-spoonful of serum was found at the base of the brain, and great vascularity in the membranes around the tuber annulare observed. (Case 27.) A lady, set. twenty-eight, was suddenly at- tacked with convulsions eight days after a natural labour. She had ten severe fits in two hours. In the intervals she was completely insensible, with stertorous breathing, dilated pupils, pulse one hundred and ten, feeble. The fits went off after a few hours, but she remained for several days in a drowsy confused state. The attack followed the use of very indigestible food. Twelve ounces of blood were taken from the temples by cupping, and cathartics administered. Re- covered. (Case 28.) In the St. Marylebone Infirmary, 3d March, 1835, a young unmarried woman was attacked with convul- sions at the end of the eighth month. Labour soon began. At 11 a.m. seven fits; neck and face swollen; face presenta- tion; pains have nearly ceased. V. S. to thirty ounces. The 20*