Dr. Conquest's outlines of midwifery : intended as a text-book for students, and a book of reference for junior practitioners.

  • Conquest, Dr.
Date:
1854
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    ;ind the exhibition of lead internally, in combination with opium and acetic acid. Lead is a much more valuable, efficient, safe, and manageable medicine than is generally supposed. Sometimes the haimorrhage is kept up by some portion of the ovum remaining partly within and partly without the uterus. Should circumstances demand it, this may be removed by careful digital interference, or with a pair of curved dressing forceps. Premature separation and expulsion of the ovum occurs more frequently at the sixth, tenth, and twelfth weeks, and at the seventh month. Women disposed to abort should, therefore, more sedulously avoid the excitino- causes of abortion at those periods of utero- gestation. [The above observations on the treatment of abor- tion are alike comprehensive and judicious, and leave little to add, except a few words on the prevention of the habit of miscarrying—a habit which, when allowed to proceed unchecked, is pretty certain to acquire fresh force at every successive period of its recurrence : Vires acquirit eundo. A patient in whom this habit is engendered should be strictly confined to the horizontal posture until long after the usual period at which she aborts has passed by. The mind and body should have perfect repose; and if she be plethoric, bleeding may be required. Aloetic purges must be avoided, but gentle laxatives will frequently be of service. Total absence from the conjugal bed must be rigidly en- forced.—J. M. W.]