The variety of views on the diagnosis and treatment of ectopic pregnancy and the need to collect and process casuistic material in order to establish accurate recognition and indicate the best treatment methods in this way prompted the author to report the case he observed. But before the message, its author gives a short historical essay, in which he sets out the views of authors of different periods on ectopic pregnancy, briefly gives statistics on the frequency of ectopic pregnancy and the views of the authors on its etiology: blockage of the fallopian tubes (Fritsch, Virchow, Hecker) caused by inflammation, kinks and fixations, false membranes; postpartum diseases of the peritoneum, plaque in the tube (Leopold, Beck, Wyder), preventing the entry of the egg into the uterus; intramural uterine fibroids (Olshausen, Roth von Macdonald), which apparently prevented the entry of eggs into it; purulent diseases, probably (Martin), affect either the loss of the ciliary epithelium, which slows down the movement of the egg, or the infiltration of the walls, which reduces the lumen of the tube; short-term swelling of the mucous membrane of the tube, the lower position of the peritoneal end compared to the uterine end (Pallen Freund); underdeveloped (infantile) pipes with their bends, etc.
On the issue of ectopic pregnancy
