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CASES IN
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| COLLECTION XV.
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| Of lingering or tedious LABOURS
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| NUMB. I. CASE I.
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| From the rigidity of the membranes when
pushed down with the waters. |
| In the year 1743, about seven in the
evening, I was called to a patient whose pains were pretty strong. The mouth
of the womb was largely open, the head presented at the upper part of the
Pelvis, and, as usual, rested against the superior part of the Os
Pubis; and during every pain, a small quantity of waters pushed down
the membranes at the back part of the Pelvis. I waited to see if
the child’s head would advance, and though the Os Internum was
fully open, would not venture to break the membranes, because when I attended
her at the birth of her first child, in the preceding year, the labour was
lingering and tedious from the large size of the head, even though it had
advanced farther, and the membranes were broke. I was therefore loath to
break them, until the head should come lower down; and the continued without
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