The principles and practice of midwifery : with some of the diseases of women.
- Milne, Alexander
- Date:
- 1871
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Credit: The principles and practice of midwifery : with some of the diseases of women. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![to improve the general health, by the employment of those means and measures treated of when speaking of amenorrhcea, such as iron, change of air, &c. In the neuralgic form, hygienic measures should also be adojited in order to strengthen the woman, and a course of quinine and iron given. The bromide of potas- sium is excellent when the pain is greatly ovarian. It can be given contemporaneously with the tonic, though at a separate hour of the day. Give the tonic forenoon and afternoon, and the bromide morning and evening. It may be necessary in some instances to leech or cup over the ovaries, but not in amemic cases. 5G5. In the rheumatic and gouty variety we must combat these diathetic states by the most approved remedies. We know nothing better yet than colchicum for the one, and alkalies, along with an infusion of guaiacum (and sulphur baths), for the other. Blistering like Davis, when needs be. These ai'e some of the means to be adopted during the interval, but what liave we to offer on the eve of, and during, the painful menstrual flow? Measures and Remedies on the Eve of the Flow.— These are rest and warmth, hot liip-bath, and vaginal injections of warm Avater with infusion of hyoscyamus or belladonna, or a little of the ext. or decoct, papav. Opium liniment may be applied over the ovaries and the sacrum, with warm fomentations afterwards. Sup- ])ositories of morphia, or pessaries of belladonna, atro- j)ine, opium, or conium, are also useful. Apiol, as noticed in amenorrhcea, is useful here. It promotes the flow, and thus does good in those cases where relief awaits on the free exit of the menses. We have found benefit from the following mixture in some cases:— Tinct. cantharid., a drachm; tinct. camphor comp., half-an-ounce; tinct. cannab. Ind., a drachm and a- half; infus. guaiac., to 6 ounces: mix. A table-spoon- ful twice a-day; to be carried on for six days or so. Some think there is vh’tue in guaiacum in the mem-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24991235_0606.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
