Case of tuberian gestation : with rupture of the cyst containing the embryo, and fatal hemorrhage into the peritoneum / by R.M. Glover.

  • Glover, Robert Mortimer, 1816-1859.
Date:
[1842?]
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Credit: Case of tuberian gestation : with rupture of the cyst containing the embryo, and fatal hemorrhage into the peritoneum / by R.M. Glover. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 of the sac in the present case, and the absence of marked symp- toms of pregnancy, together with the recent formation of the decidiia and state of the uterus, I should not bo inclined to con- sider the pregnancy as more advanced than three weeks. AU the symptoms af such cases, with confirmation of the great effu- sion of blood that occurs in them, will be found described in these authors, also by Capuron,' and doubtless by other writers. It is not my intention to enter into the literature of the subject; but I should be inclined to conjecture that parallel cases are more frequent than is supposed. A practitioner in this neigh- bourhood described to me a case of the kind which occurred to him four years ago. In his case also the foetus had apparently attained the third or fourth month o-f gestation. Explanation of the Plate. Tlie anterior view of the uterus is represented ; a transverse section is ■ made of the left portion, besides the general section, and a portion of uterus; reflected and reversed, in order to show the decidua as described. 1. Is the sac ; 2. The left Fallopian tube ; 3. The recent cicatrix on the left ovarv 4. The hydatid ; 5. The cell in the neck of the uterus.—The appearances on section of the right ovary are sufficiently clear. Cours Tlit'oriq^ue et Pratique des Accouchements, t. 2, p. 678, second edition. BALFOUR AND JACK, PRINTERS. I