Practical treatise on diseases peculiar to women and girls : to which is added an eclectic system of midwifery : also, the treatment of the diseases of children and the remedies used in the cure of diseases, particularly adapted to the use of heads of families & midwives / by Buel Eastman.

  • Eastman, Buell.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Practical treatise on diseases peculiar to women and girls : to which is added an eclectic system of midwifery : also, the treatment of the diseases of children and the remedies used in the cure of diseases, particularly adapted to the use of heads of families & midwives / by Buel Eastman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    jected with soap suds, and then with astringents. A .strong decoction of Oak, Hemlock and Witch Hazel barks, will form a very good injection for this purpose. A solution of Alum with the mucilage of Slippery Elm is good for injections. In cases of much debility, strengthening bitters will be highly serviceable. The Rhatany root is certainly valuable in this affection. SECTION VI. COPIOUS AND PROFUSE FLOODINGS. 21. This immoderate discharge of the menses, or unnatural flux of blood from the vagina, occurs under very different] states of the constitution, and the treatment is widely different. It may occur in the pregnant, or unimpregnant states; sometimes, though seldom, before the age of puberty, often about the cessation of the menses, and following abortion, during and after pregnancy. In some instances, the menstrual secretion becomes so copious as to cause much debility and exhaustion, and to require immedi- ate interference. In many females the flow of menses is always very large, who, nevertheless, enjoy a state of vigorous health. So long, therefore, as the health of the female continues unmolested by copious men- struation, it cannot be accounted immoderate, or a proper object of medical attention; but when this evacuation gives rise to debility, exhaustion, and other 3