Elements of practical midwifery; or, companion to the lying-in room / By Charles Waller.

  • Waller, Charles, 1802-1862.
Date:
1829
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Credit: Elements of practical midwifery; or, companion to the lying-in room / By Charles Waller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    opened, the room to be kept cool, and perfect quietude and the recumbent posture strictly enjoined; unnecessary examination per vagi- nam to be avoided. An opposite mode of treatment is required where the patient is debilitated and exhaust- ed. Nourishment may be administered, and a little stimulus allowed, such as mulled wine, or weak and hot brandy and water. When the female has somewhat rallied, it will become a question whether it will be more to her advantage to expedite or to retard deli- very. If the pains have altogether subsided, and there be a disposition for sleep, a full dose of opium may be given, and quietness strictly observed, in order that rest may be procured; but if nature appear to be on the alert, if the pains regularly continue, though defective in power, twenty-five grains of pulv. secalis cornuti may be exhibited in warm tea, and. repeated in the course of twenty minutes, if necessary. The effect
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