. A system of obstetrics . ller. 2 Histoire complete des Ruptures et des Dechirures de V Uterus, etc. LACERATIONS OF THE UTERUS. 19 resulting from this cause. Depaul has stated that lour out of twenty-four deformed pelves in his collection show exaggerated developments of particular parts, forming knife-like projection-; according to hisobservation, this deformity was most frequent at the pubic crest. Thefollowing remarkable ease is quoted by Duparc^ue:1 A woman hadbeen in labor twelve hours, the presentation being pelvic The osuteri was not yet completely dilated when all the anterior part of
. A system of obstetrics . ller. 2 Histoire complete des Ruptures et des Dechirures de V Uterus, etc. LACERATIONS OF THE UTERUS. 19 resulting from this cause. Depaul has stated that lour out of twenty-four deformed pelves in his collection show exaggerated developments of particular parts, forming knife-like projection-; according to hisobservation, this deformity was most frequent at the pubic crest. Thefollowing remarkable ease is quoted by Duparc^ue:1 A woman hadbeen in labor twelve hours, the presentation being pelvic The osuteri was not yet completely dilated when all the anterior part of theneek. from one side to the other, separated. Immediately the foetuspassed into the abdominal cavity, and it was extracted with great dif-ficulty in less than two hours: it was dead. The mother died fivehours alter being delivered. The basin was found a little narrow; thepoint of the sacrum had passed through the posterior pari of the uterus(was this the -aero-vertebral angle?) j the internal and salient border Fig. Tnuuverae ><r Semi circular Grlnding-through of the Uterus. of the pubis and of the iliac bones resembled Bomewhaf the edge of apaper-cutter, and had cut all the thickness of the uterus a- if it hadbeen divided by a ligature. Breus1 has published a case of injurydone t<» the uterus by it- tissues being worn through in consequence of tit. I eber perforin rule I sur a I terus, H /- otter. 20 DISEASES AND ACCIDENTS OF LABOR. the pressure of the head of the child, forcing these tissues against thesharp promontory of a rachitic pelvis. Rupture of the Body of the Uterus.—Ruptures limited to the bodyof the uterus have resulted from the giving way of cicatrices consequentupon a rupture in a previous labor or of a Csesarean section. Barnesadmits that in some cases of this accident excessive fatty degenerationof the muscular tissue of the organ was present. He adds, however,that to prove that a particular cause existed in a limited number ofcases is very d
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