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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    almost every case of Iia3morrhage may be re- strained. In less dangerous cases of hfemorrhage the applica- tion of cold to the pubes, perineum, abdomen, and loins will frequently arrest its progress. This re- medy may be applied by cloths wrung out of cold vinegar, or salt and water; or by the more impressive method of dashing the parts with cold water; or by the still more efficacious use of pounded ice in a bladder, allowed to dissolve gradually on the abdomen, or a piece of ice introduced into the vagina or rectum. Should there be irregular contraction of the mus- cular fibres of the uterus, either constituting the hour-glass contraction, when the circular fibres are affected with spasm about the centre of the organ; or the oviform contraction, when all the circular fibres act spasmodically, whilst those which take a longitu- dinal course appear to be more than usually relaxed • the haemorrhage will be checked by such means as relax spasm, and induce regular and universal con- tractile efforts. [Irregular contractions of the uterus may be di- vided into three varieties, - the globular form, the variety in which partial contraction takes place at the fundus, and the hour-glass contraction. There is another form which occasionally but rarely occurs, and whicli has been termed the hoo-'s- back contraction. In this form, the fibres, in front of the uterus, form an acute longitudinal projection, bearing some resemblance to the back of a hon- —' J. M. W.]