. Manual of antenatal pathology and hygiene : the foetus. l passages. When, howevei, thifoetal abdomen, lieing within reach, was tapped, it was seldom foiminecessary to resort to such endiryoclastic procedures. The third stagiof labour was often rendered somewhat difficult on account of tinlarge size and dropsical state of the placenta, and l>y reason of uteriniinertia due to delay in the earlier stages. The puer])eria, it is noteworthy, were generally quite normal; in fact, the rapid disappearaucof many of the maternal symptoms, immediately after the emptyin;of the uterus, suggested the co
. Manual of antenatal pathology and hygiene : the foetus. l passages. When, howevei, thifoetal abdomen, lieing within reach, was tapped, it was seldom foiminecessary to resort to such endiryoclastic procedures. The third stagiof labour was often rendered somewhat difficult on account of tinlarge size and dropsical state of the placenta, and l>y reason of uteriniinertia due to delay in the earlier stages. The puer])eria, it is noteworthy, were generally quite normal; in fact, the rapid disappearaucof many of the maternal symptoms, immediately after the emptyin;of the uterus, suggested the conclusion that the fn^tal condition waoften the cause rather than the result of the mothers ill-health. The postnatal clinical history of the dropsical infant was chief!,remarkable for its abbreviation. Often the foetus escaped antenataonly to meet intranatal death, and if, by any chance, he came into thworld alive, it was seldom that the lungs could act pro])erly, oaccount of the fluid accumulations in the thorax and abdomen. I GENERAL F(ETAL DROPSY 291. Fio. Mesial Sectiou of Fojtus witli General Dropsy, left face shown, (i natural size.)«, Anterior fontanelle ; h, (Edematous scalji tissue ; c, H»morrliage in falx cerebri;d, Posterior fontanelle ; c, Cerebellum ; /, Pituitary body ; g, Basi-occiput; h, Pos-terior arcli of atlas; i, First dorsal vertebra ; j, Thynnis gland; k, Fluid inpericardium ; I, Liver; m, Pancreas ; », Pylorus ; o. Fluid in peritoneum ; p. Firstsacral vertebra ; q. Umbilical cord ; r, Tunica vaginalis testis ; s, Penis ; t, Trachea. 292 ANTKNATAL lATII01,0(iV AND HVCilENK one case (Seeger, Miscell. Acad. nat. curios., Dec. i., Aim. \.,\i. Kll,1670), however, life lasted a few clays, aud for a few hours in a fewotlier instances ; but generally the potential mortality of this intra-uterine malady became real at birth. Stat sua ctiiquc dies! Water-babies these are, with a lirief tenure <jf life! The study of the morbid anatomy of the record
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