Statement, testimonials, and other documents, submitted in favour of Dr. Evory Kennedy, Master of the Dublin Lying-in Hospital, candidate for the Chair of Midwifery in the University of Edinburgh : with a descriptive catalogue of Dr. Kennedy's Museum [illustrative of his lectures on midwifery] / [Evory Kennedy].

  • Kennedy, Evory, 1806-1886
Date:
1840
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Credit: Statement, testimonials, and other documents, submitted in favour of Dr. Evory Kennedy, Master of the Dublin Lying-in Hospital, candidate for the Chair of Midwifery in the University of Edinburgh : with a descriptive catalogue of Dr. Kennedy's Museum [illustrative of his lectures on midwifery] / [Evory Kennedy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    integuments. From this cushion arose five little round- ed fleshy prominences of the size of small peas, furnish- ed with nails, and resembling toes. These prominences were moveable, and were extended or retracted much as the cat extends or retracts her claws. (R. C.) G. a. 11. Wax cast of a Double Hare-Lip. G. a. 12. Cast of the Abdomen of a child which had com genital umbilical hernia, and scrotal hernia of the right side. (R. C.) G. a. 13. Cast of the head of a child which was born with a varicose state of the veins of the scalp, these veins communicating with the interior of the skull by an opening in the situation of the posterior fontanelle, and having a pulsation synchronous with that of the heart. (R. C.) G. a. 14. Cast of a large Spina Bifida of the sacral vertebra?. G. a. 15. Cast of the head and upper part of the trunk of a hydrocephalic child. G. a. 16. Cast taken from a female with imperforate hy- men ; the accumulated menstrual fluid behind the hy- men has greatly distended it. G. a. 17. Another cast from a case similar to the preceding one. G. a. 18. Cast of a large Procidentia Uteri. G. a. 19. Cast of a Procidentia Uteri, in a patient in whom some years previously laceration of the perineum into the rectum had taken place. (R. C.) G. a. 20. Cast taken from the same pa/tient after the pro- cidentia had been returned, and shewing (the labia be- ing separated) the nature and extent of the laceration of the perineum. (R. C.) G. a. 21. Cast of the head of a child affected with syphilis. Two abscesses formed beneath the scalp, which pre- sented to the feel very much the characters of hernia cerebri, or encysted tumour. ' t/