Edge speaks of a case of chorea in pregnancy
in a woman of twenty-seven, not interrupting pregnancy or
retarding safe delivery. This had continued for four pregnancies,
but in the fourth abortion took place.
Buzzard had a case of nervous tremor in a woman, following a fall
at her fourth month of pregnancy, who at term gave birth to a
male child that was idiotic. Beatty relates a curious accident to
a fetus in utero. The woman was in her first confinement and was
delivered of a small but healthy and strong boy. There was a
small puncture in the abdominal parietes, through which the whole
of the intestines protruded and were constricted. The opening was
so small that he had to enlarge it with a bistoury to replace the
bowel, which was dark and congested; he sutured the wound with
silver wire, but the child subsequently died.
Tiffany of Baltimore has collected excellent statistics of
operations during pregnancy; and Mann of Buffalo has done the
same work, limiting himself to operations on the pelvic organs,
where interference is supposed to have been particularly
contraindicated in pregnancy. Mann, after giving his individual
cases, makes the following summary and conclusions:--
(1) Pregnancy is not a general bar to operations, as has been
supposed.
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