Cazin and Rey both produced abortion by forcible dilatation of
the anus for fissure, but Gayet used both the fingers and a
speculum in a case at five months and the woman went to term. By
cystotomy Reamy removed a double hair-pin from a woman pregnant
six and a half months, without interruption, and according to
Mann again, McClintock extracted stones from the bladder by the
urethra in the fourth month of pregnancy, and Phillips did the
same in the seventh month. Hendenberg and Packard report the
removal of a tumor weighing 8 3/4 pounds from a pregnant uterus
without interrupting gestation.
The following extract from the University Medical Magazine of
Philadelphia illustrates the after-effects of abdominal
hysteropasy on subsequent pregnancies:--
"Fraipont (Annales de la Societe Medico-Chirurgicale de Liege,
1894) reports four cases where pregnancy and labor were
practically normal, though the uterus of each patient had been
fixed to the abdominal walls. In two of the cases the hysteropexy
had been performed over five years before the pregnancy occurred,
and, although the bands of adhesion between the fundus and the
parietes must have become very tough after so long a period, no
special difficulty was encountered.
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