A case of rupture of the uterus in the sixth month of pregnancy / by Thomas Ilott.

  • Ilott, Thomas.
Date:
[between 1810 and 1819]
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Credit: A case of rupture of the uterus in the sixth month of pregnancy / by Thomas Ilott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    375 Ilott OB a Case of Rupture of the Uterus. r III. A Case of Rupture of the Uterus in the Sixth Month of Preg- nancy. Bv Thomas Ilott, of Bromley, Kent, Member |. of the Royal College of Surgeons, in London. About noon on Sunday, Feb. 16, I was desired to visit Mrs Hill, but being then absent from home, I did not arrive at Green St. Green, where she lived, till near two o’clock P.M. I found her in bed, vomiting up a considerable quantity ot ropy mucus: after each effort to vomit she appeared rather faint; but her pulse was good, and there was no other symptom of disorder. She supposed that she was in the sixth month ot her preg- nancy, and had been as well as she usually was when in that state. That about four o’clock in the morning she was awoke by a violent pain, as she said, in her bowels, describing it to have been about the umbilicus. This pain, although violent, yet was of short duration, but was succeeded by vomiting, which had returned at intervals till the time I saw her ; but no pam accompanied it. . . . I left her in about half an hour, with an injunction to the nurse, that if she found any alteration, to let me know, as I thought it probable premature labour might come on. No pain, however, after the first attack, recurred; but she gradually sunk, and died about ten o’clock the same evening. The manner of her death made me very anxious to examine the body; but as her friends lived at a distance, some days elapsed before their consent could be obtained. EXAMINATIO CADAVERIR. The cavity of the abdomen was filled with blood, which had insinuated itself in large quantities among the intestines. On turning back the abdominal muscles, the foetus enveloped in its membranes, which were perfect, with the placenta attached, were found lying in the cavity of the abdomen; there was a rvipture of the coats of the uterus, at the fundus, through which the foetus, &c. had escaped. Probably this event took