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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    to the woman, and certainly to the child, a better chance of escape, than when they are left to the risk of dependence on the preservative and restorative powers of nature. Still, on this method of proceed- ing there exists great diversity of sentiment: some justly eminent men think that more women would re- cover if left to themselves, than when the additional injury of Gastrotomia has been Inflicted. \_After-treatment. — Should the patient be in a state of collapse, stimulants will be required; but immediately on reaction taking place it will be ad- visable to give a powerful opiate. Opiates and leeches, with warm poultices to the abdomen, arc the remedies which are likely to be of most service. — J. M. W.]