The principles and practice of midwifery : with some of the diseases of women.
- Milne, Alexander
- Date:
- 1871
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The principles and practice of midwifery : with some of the diseases of women. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![iind efficient Graafian vesicles, and normal oinilation. jMarriage has undoubtedly achieved wondrous results, even in cases of protracted emansio viemium. The ])ale, pasty-looking, blanched, hysterically breathless, and languid girl has been by it transformed into a ruddy, active, vigorous, animated, and cheerful woman. The potent spell of some famed enchanter would seem to have passed over her, impelling her into a novel and more vigorous existence. It is not easy to divine how this gi’eat change is effected; but it would seem as if the sperm cells had the power, not only of fecundating healthy germ cells, but also of amending defective ones, of rousing, in short, to healthy ovulation. 554. Medicines, (kc.—What have we in the physic way of service in emansio mensium 1 Much, indeed. If the woman is plethoric, purge her well wth the salines, such as sulphate of magnesia, or with cathartics, such as jalap ; with a little aloes and podophyllin, to unload the liver. The liver often requires a frequent filip, and these wdll give it well; but a change may be had occasionally to blue pill, I’hubarb, or taraxacum. Sluggish bowel, or hybernating liver (if we may use the term), should be almost ruthlessly combated here, for they help to maintain a plethoric amenorrhcea. The woman may also have hot hip-baths often and sedu- lously, at the time of the molimen; and it may be necessary to leech her vaginal ceiwix. Under these means the function is often established. In ansemia and the diathetic state, scrofula, with deficiency of the red corpuscles, the femiginous pre- parations still stand uni-ivalled. There may be a question as to the modus operandi, but there is none as to the good achieved. Quesneville’s view, that the iron combines with the blood-discs, and that the blood, after receiving it, absorbs more oxygen (just as it does when we give the potass, chlor., and other alkaline salts), may, or may not, be open to doubt; but doubt lias no place with respect to the benefit which the iron](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24991235_0597.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
