The pathology of intra-uterine death.

  • Priestley, W. O. (William Overend), 1831-1900.
Date:
1887
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The pathology of intra-uterine death. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

    13/232 (page 5)
    Many of the causes wliicli either remotely or •directly bring about intra-uterine death are very difficult to trace, and some are so subtle in their influence as to be impossible to detect. Thus the child dies in utero with some women in successive 23regnancies, and without any clearly assignable cause. The habit of aborting has been spoken of, as though it were independent of disease. It is not infrequent to hear of women apparently healthy aborting or losing their children in the later months •of gestation ten, twelve, or thirteen successive times. Oharpentier mentions the case of a woman who had no living child until the eighteenth pregnancy, and this was born at eight months. Both parents were apparently healthy. Some women are so prone to miscarriage at any period of gestation, that the slightest imprudence «eems to be enough to endanger the existence of pregnancy, and lead to a detachment of the ovum. This is in marked contrast to other and aj^parently not healthier women, who will bear an extraordinary amount of violence or injury without disturbance to pregnancy. Mauriceau' relates tlie case of a woman in the seventh month of pregnancy, who fell from the window of a house, and broke her arm, dislocated her wrist, and, besides, received extensive bruises in various parts of her body, without bringing on labour. Dr. Henry Davies saw a pregnant woman, who, in throwing water out of a ^dndow, lost her balance, .and fell into the street, breaking both tliighs, but she recovered without aborting. Dupuytren has put on record the case of a woman who had severe trau- * See Tyler Smith, Manual of Obstetrics, 1S58.