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TL;DR: Surgical emphysema in or following labour is an unusual complication: Gordon (1927) reviewed the literature back to 1617 and was able to find 128 cases, to which he added two cases of his own.
Abstract: Surgical emphysema in or following labour is an unusual complication: Gordon (1927) reviewed the literature back to 1617 and was able to find 128 cases, to which he added two cases of his own. Gordon states that the condition was first described by Simmons in 1783, but Louise Bourgeois, midwife to the Queen of France, possibly referred to it earlier, when she wrote in 1617 \" I saw she tried to stop crying out and I implored her not to stop for fear her throat would swell \".