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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    218 LABOURS ATTENDED BY CONVULSIONS. sexual excitement, and by the steady employment of cold bathing, and other means which invigorate the system. LAEOUES ATTENDED BY CONVULSIONS* Women are liable to epileptic seizures before, during, and subsequent to parturition; and in either case they seem to ai'ise from the same source, and to demand similar treatment. [Although an attack of epilepsy bears a resem- blance to puerperal convulsions, there is, nevertheless, a marked difference between the two affections. Epileptic attacks are not generally ushered in with decided symptoms of congestion of the brain, they are not accompanied with hissing expiration, they do not follow each other in rapid succession, and they are seldom fatal. The reverse of these symptoms obtains in puerperal convulsions. Moreover, experience seems to prove that epileptics are remarkably free from pu- erperal convulsions, and that epileptic fits very sel- dom occur during pregnancy, or, if they do appear, that they are much milder than on other occasions.— J. M. W.] Cljaractcr 0f tt)t ^ttacft. Sometimes puerperal convulsions come on without any premonitory signs : but, in the majority of cases, * Vide Traitc des Convulsions chez Ics femmes enceintes cn travail, par Mw/aeZ, a Pans ,• and Considerations sur Ics Convul- sions que attaqucnt les I'cmmes enceintes, par Cliaussier. Ill