Ant epartum Haemorrhage

PART I. PLACENTA PR EVIA. Historical Review. ALARMING haemorrhage occurring during the later months of pregnancy was described and greatly dreaded by ancient writers. Its real nature was to them most obscure. In spite of the fact that even so far back as Hippocrates the presence of the placenta over the internal 0s was in a vague way related to the occurrence of haemorrhage before labour, it was only during the seventeenth century that this relation began to be clearly understood.