Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 edition. Excerpt: ...mother is weakened, and may even "faint; and, in every instance, the child suffers, but does not "always die." (Principles of Midwifery 124.) "Uterine he"morrhage, if timely means of relief be not employed, ends in "the death of both mother and child," (ib. 177.) Dr. Hamilton, treating of uterine hemorrhage, warns us that "the "neglect of half an hour or less may be fatal to the mother "and child." (Outlines of Midwifery 390.) The case recorded by Heister and so often alluded to ( LXXXI.) proves the same. Morgagni records the history of a woman who miscarried after two profuse hemorrhoidal discharges, with fever, for which blood was taken from the arm and foot. Although the patient is not said to have sustained any loss of blood per 'vaginam, yet "nothing of blood and indeed nothing of bloody colour appeared "in any part of the foetus; almost all the viscera were pallid "and nearly destitute of colour." (Let. XLVIII. 5.) It would be easy to collect similar cases but the preceding extracts will suffice to prove: 1st. That a child may die, before birth, in consequence of hemorrhage ftom the umbilical vessels, without affecting the health of the mother, although, in some instances, hemorrhage from the child is injurious to both. 2d. Uierint hemorrhage is not unfrequently fatal, both to the mother and child, but the child may die from hemorrhage affecting the mother, although standing or walking about. In this case, the cord, if too short, must either break off, leaving the placenta in the uterus, or, the weight of the foetus may possibly drag the placenta after it. Now, the woman labouring under this violent spasm, or being panic-struck, may swoon away, and..."
