Among the French, 36,169 cases of labour; of which there were 30 crotchet cases, or 1 in 1,205⅔.
And among the Germans, 132 crotchet cases, in 256,655 labours, or 1 in 1,944⅓. Of 251 cases, in which the result to the mother is given, the mortality was 52, or about 1 in 5. (Op. Cit.) Editor.]
[107] The above arrangement is that which is given by Professor Naegelé, in his Lehrbuch der Geburtschülfe.
[108] Pratique des Accouchemens, p. 21. “Je puis assurer n’avoir jamais rencontré aucune position du col, ni du tronc proprement dit.” (p. 19.)
[109] Merriman’s Synopsis of difficult Parturition, last edition, p. 69. The elongated form of the protruded bag of membranes is, however, by no means a constant occurrence, as cases frequently occur where nothing of the kind has appeared.
[110] Boer’s Naturliche Geburtshülfe, b. iii. p. 64. A case of actual evolution has also been described by Mr. Barlow, p. 399.
[111] Med. Chir. Trans., case by Dr. Smith, of Maidstone. See also an interesting case by Professor Naegelé, in the British and Foreign Medical Review, where the uterus was ruptured by sudden violence, part of the child was delivered per vaginam, the rest by an abscess through the abdominal parietes. No. x. April, 1838.
[112] Lassus, Pathologie Chirurgicale, tom. ii. p. 237, quoted by Dr. M’Keever, op. cit. p. 27.
[113] Collins, op. cit. p. 277. An interesting case of rupture at the sixth month, is recorded by Mr. Ilot, of Bromley, in the seventh volume of the Medical Repository, and quoted by Dr. Merriman, who has also given another at the eighth month by Mr. Glen, p. 268. See also an interesting case in the Brit. and For. Med. Rev. for October, 1838, p. 539.
[114] [Another case is recorded by Dr. Carmichael, of Dublin. See Amer. Journ. Med. Sc., May 1840, p. 236.—Ed.]