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Excerpt from The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1858, Vol. 36 Accompanying him, I found the patient, 19 years Old, exsanguine, with quick pulse, and greatly exhausted from loss Of blood. I found that she had been attended, at the time of her delivery, by a German midwife, who stated that, after a brief labour, she had given birth to a male infant, weighing ten and one-half pounds. She also stated that the after-birth soon came away, accompanied by a large tumour, which descended into the vagina. This tumour she supposed to be a mole or false conception, and she stated that it was as large as a cannon-ball. The flooding, at the time, she described as terrific, producing protracted syncope. A day or two previous to my first visit, whilst making an effort to evacuate the bowels, the tumour had descended through the os externum and became suspended between the patient's thighs. All her efforts to remove the tumour proving unavailing, the midwife had sent for the gentlemen above mentioned for that purpose, and they now associated me with them in the treatment of the case. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
