Medical and chirurgical observations; as an appendix to a former publication

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1773 Excerpt: ...of an intense heat, attended with pain and tenderness, extending all over the Abdomen, fowhich no means that the Surgeon could think of afforded any relief; she grew worse in all respects without any signs of being delivered., and and he thought it not advisable to attempt delivering her entire'y by force under these circumstanced, fearing she might actually expire even in the operation. On the 7th day in the morning the pain and heat were greatly abated, but she had a very languid intermitting pu!se, denoting a mortification, in which it was apprehended the inflammation might terminate; soon after she became delirious, and died about six in the evening of that day. The morning after her death, her body was opened, according to her own defirCj and both the Surgeons were concerned in the dissection They found the Uterus mortified tiri the-h left side, with a Foetus of a natural size and tZZ form contained in it, which they thought had not been dead many days, and nothing relative to that appeared preternatural The Ovarium-ort that side was as large as a melon and of an oval figure, beginning also to be mortified. By opening its tunic Which resembled a thick leather bagj there H issued issued out a full quart of an atheromatous matter, in the middle of which was lodged a lump about the bigness of a turkey's egg, in substance like hog's lard, which melted as easily and was as inoffensive; it had a great quantity of brown hair intermixt with it, most in the middle, as appeared upon cutting through it. This substance was not inveloped in a distinct membrane, but was covered all over with hair, twisted and curled in a very wonderful manner, some of which exceeded a foot in length, and had evidently bulbous roots when viewed with a glass; some took root in the cen...