Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for the year ... . UTERUS SEPTUS. 359 fourth month. The danger of infection in these cases seems tobe very great and extreme care should be exercised in anyoperative procedure upon them. The necessity for early recognition of pregnancy in all anomaliesof the genital tract is obvious and to this end we should per-sistently endeavor to educate the laity to seek counsel of theirphysician as soon as conception is suspected. In a certain class of anomalies where the divergence from thenormal is not marked, gestation may con
Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for the year ... . UTERUS SEPTUS. 359 fourth month. The danger of infection in these cases seems tobe very great and extreme care should be exercised in anyoperative procedure upon them. The necessity for early recognition of pregnancy in all anomaliesof the genital tract is obvious and to this end we should per-sistently endeavor to educate the laity to seek counsel of theirphysician as soon as conception is suspected. In a certain class of anomalies where the divergence from thenormal is not marked, gestation may continue to term and a. Fig. 6. fairly normal labor result in a living child, but in that class ofcases which is met with not uncommonly, namely, those whichbecome pregnant in a rudimentary horn, seldom, if ever, cango to term, since the muscular development is as immatureas the parts are morphologically incorrect. As Williams (45)says, unless there is free communication between the two horns,which is but rarely the case, a pregnancy in this situation is avery serious occurrence, since normal delivery is impossible. Ifthe muscular tissue of the rudimentary horn is poorly developed, 360 H . E L L I N G T O N YATES,
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