Three Hundred Consultations in Midwifery Author:Robert Lee General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1864 Original Publisher: Churchill Subjects: Obstetrics Midwifery Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Mi... more »llion-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Case 7. -- On the 10th of May, 1848, I was called to a case of dangerous uterine haemorrhage in the ninth month of pregnancy, in which there had been complete placental presentation. Before I could reach the house of the patient, her medical attendant, seeing the danger to which she was exposed, and believing that her life could only be preserved by immediate delivery, introduced his hand into the uterus without difficulty, grasped the feet of the child, and turned. When I saw the patient the uterus had been emptied entirely of its contents, the flooding had ceased, and she recovered favorably. Case 8. -- May 18th, 1848. -- Mrs. -- - has had five children ; is within six weeks of the full period. After a long walk fourteen days ago, pain was experienced yesterday in the back slightly, coming round to the hips ; these pains went on two hours, when a considerable discharge of blood took place from the vagina ; it left her, ever since which, a slight coffee-coloured discharge, trifling in amount; the night before last there was a considerable discharge after having had some pain. Yesterday morning Dr. -- -- saw Mrs. , and found the os uteri dilated to the size of a sixpence; no part of placenta presenting. She recovered from the haemorrhage, which was not accompanied with faintness, and went on tolerably well all yesterday till about 6 p. m., when she began to have a few pains, about three or four, and accompanied with slight haemorrhage. About 4 a. m., May 18th, slight pains in the back, four or five, and they were followed by a very consid...« less