Lectures on ectopic pregnancy and pelvic haematocele . ILLUSTRATIVE CASES. 93 Case 2.—Mrs, W , of Holbeck, a patient of Dr. DoJsons, with whom I saw her in September last year, aged thirty-five, hasbeen married ten years, but never pregnant until the present caseoeccurred. Menstruation all her life quite regular and natural ;the last period was about October loth, 1883. On December 3rd,having missed exactly seven weeks, she was slightly unwell, andhad at the same time, to use her own words, a very violent pain in the body. The symptoms were such as would be produced byrupture of an early tubal


Lectures on ectopic pregnancy and pelvic haematocele . ILLUSTRATIVE CASES. 93 Case 2.—Mrs, W , of Holbeck, a patient of Dr. DoJsons, with whom I saw her in September last year, aged thirty-five, hasbeen married ten years, but never pregnant until the present caseoeccurred. Menstruation all her life quite regular and natural ;the last period was about October loth, 1883. On December 3rd,having missed exactly seven weeks, she was slightly unwell, andhad at the same time, to use her own words, a very violent pain in the body. The symptoms were such as would be produced byrupture of an early tubal gestation—viz., pain and collapse. Sherecovered from this, but the body went on increasing in size justas in normal pregnancy. At the end of August a sanguinolentdischarge occurred, and tliis therefore may be taken as the timewhen labour would have taken place had gestation ]jeen movements of the child, however, ceased to be felt about theend of the first week in August. By examination of the abdomentlie outlines of the child were no


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