The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 96
e. Where, from any cause, the attempt at reduction has to be abandoned for the time, an extensive amount of dilatation is thus preserved until the condition of the patient will admit of another effort for her relief. On a moment's reflection, it will be evident that a per- sistent dilating force is… … within the uterine canal, a force is exerted on the outside of the organ to roll out the parts above, while at the same time an upward action is at
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