A textbook of obstetrics . , however, be depression, loss of appetite, andchilly sensations. When the dead body undergoes putrefactivechanges, or when, the soft parts being absorbed, there is anattempt to get rid of the fetal bones by ulcerative processes intothe bladder, vagina, or rectum, or externally through the abdom-inal walls, the mothers health and safety are seriously , after ectopic gestation the dead fetus may remain for anindefinite period within the mothers abdomen, without givingrise to greater inconvenience than would be caused by the. o years in the abdomen (Baer
A textbook of obstetrics . , however, be depression, loss of appetite, andchilly sensations. When the dead body undergoes putrefactivechanges, or when, the soft parts being absorbed, there is anattempt to get rid of the fetal bones by ulcerative processes intothe bladder, vagina, or rectum, or externally through the abdom-inal walls, the mothers health and safety are seriously , after ectopic gestation the dead fetus may remain for anindefinite period within the mothers abdomen, without givingrise to greater inconvenience than would be caused by the. o years in the abdomen (Baer). i i570- Jem. Physiol., vol. iii, p. 314, quoted in Tarnierel Budin, op. THE DISEASES OF THE FETUS. 173 enlargement of the abdomen ; but should the germs of putrefac-tion ^ain access to the dead body, as they may by reason ofthe contiguity of the intestines (Litzmann), then a general sup-purative peritonitis may be developed and rapidly prove , too, in the retention of blighted ova1 or in cases of missedlabor2 there is usually no evidence of serious harm to the motheruntil the putrefaction of the dead body begins, when there maybe shortly manifested all the symptoms of septicemia, unlessthe uterine cavity be speedily cleared of its contents and welldisinfected. It is by no means an easy matter to determine whether ornot the fetus has ceased to live. If its death should haveoccurred during the early part of pregnancy, the uterus willusually cease developing and the circumference of the abdomen /£* \\<
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