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

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    a protracted labour, owing to injury to which it has been subjected during parturition.—J. M. W.] Vomiting is a common attendant on uterine pain, and is beneficial, by ejecting food which, from its quantity or quality, may be a source of inconvenience to the stomach. It principally occurs during the dilating pains, and unquestionably assists in the relaxation and dilatation of the OS uteri. When vomiting continues or returns in a pro- tracted labour, after the mouth of the womb is fully dilated, with abdominal tension and pain, without uterine contractions, and with ejections from the stomach of fluid like dark coffee-grounds, with foul tongue and rapid and hard pulse, it generally must be viewed as indicative of inflammatory action or exhaustion and laceration, and requiring immediate and most efficient interference. Besides these attendants on parturition, the pulse usually becomes quick and full, the countenance florid, the whole surface of the body covered with profuse perspiration, and the lower extremities cramped. NATURAL LABOUR. The process of natural labour is at once so simple and so beautiful that it cannot fail to excite the ad- miration of those who investigate minutely the opera- tions of nature.