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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898. Excerpt: ... THE GLASGOW MEDICAL JOURNAL No. VI. June, 1898. ORIGINAL ARTICLES. EXTRA-UTERINE PREGNANCY.1 By J. K. KELLY, M.D., Physician for Diseases of Women, Glasgow Royal Infirmary; Lecturer on Gynaecology, St. Mungo's College. It is a noteworthy fact that though many books have been written and a great deal of discussion has been carried on about extra-uterine pregnancy, it is still generally considered a rare affection--an anomaly deserving mention as a pathological curiosity and an interesting freak of nature, but not likely to be met with in ordinary practice, and hardly deserving attention as an ailment affecting humanity. The explanation of this attitude of the medical profession towards what is not an uncommon malady is no doubt to be found in the fact that, until quite recently, attention was given only to cases where a foetus was to be seen and felt in the extra-uterine ovum; while in the great majority of instances, when a pregnancy is extra-uterine, it is interrupted at such an early period that the foetus is incapable of resisting the destructive forces to which it is exposed during and after its death, and accordingly the naked eye cannot detect that it has ever existed. Such cases were formerly misinterpreted, and only the much rarer cases were recognised in which the embryo had lived till some part of its osseous system was formed. Hence it was, no doubt, that extra-uterine pregnancy was hardly recognised as a disease to be reckoned with in the ordinary course of practice until the microscope began to be used in pathological research. 1 Read at a meeting of the Glasgow Pathological and Clinical Society held on llth April, 1898. No. 6. 2 C VoL XLIX. Far from being rare, however, extra-uterine pregnancy is of frequent occurrence, and in this paper I w...