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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    the observation of Dr. Conquest as to the inexpe- diency of effecting an earhj delivery in every instance of puerperal convulsions. —J. M. W.] After delivery, puerperal convulsions, in some in- stances, have continued without any very ostensible cause. In these cases it is often necessary to per- severe in the same plan of treatment as has been laid down; with the addition of successive bhsters applied to different parts of the body, to produce counter- irritation. Under these circumstances, large doses of camphor have been given with decided benefit. It is not uncommon, after puerperal convulsions, for the bladder to lose its tone, so as to require the introduction of the catheter for some time. LAEOUES WITH UTERINE HEMORRHAGE. The practice of midwifery can scarcely present a more appalling and dangerous occurrence than uterine htemorrhage ; and certainly there are no cases which come under the care of the accoucheur that demand more prompt, judicious, and vigorous treatment than labours of this order. Uterine haemorrhage may occur before, during, or to the birth of the child. Under the head of abortion, suflaclent has been ad- vanced on the subject of haemorrhage occurring before labour only that it must be borne in mmd, that, m the latter months of utero-gestation, the calibre of