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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![cate, ansemic, and suffered from albuminuria. One of them recovered her sight a fortnight after labour, the other became 23ermanently blind. As regards the causes of the amaurosis in these cases, some are of oj^inion that it is due to congestion of the head, arising from straining, ttc. Oiu- own cases do not suj^iDort this ojimion, but would rather seem to favour the view of a deficiency of blood in the ojihthalmic arteries, and conse- quent inq^airment of the optic discs. Facial Paralysis.—Numerous cases of this form of 2)alsy have been reiiorted. It does not interfere with gestation, and often j:)asses away in a week or two. Treatment.—In the treatment of these vaiious forms of pai-alysis we are guided by the causes. It is very ])robable that not a few of them are due to toxemia, and often that kind indicated by albuminous urine. If we meet with a grave albuminuria, we must combat it in an efficient manner, as noticed in a 2Di’evio\is jiart of this book. By curing it, or moderating it, we may avert some of those ]:)alsies to which we have just refen’ed. It hardly belongs to us to touch on the various means and remedies to be employed in jiaralysis, these being am^jly detailed in works on the practice of medicine. 588. Jaundice.—We have now seen two cases of this malady occuriing during gestation. These occurred towards the latter jieriod of pregnancy, and were jjrobably due to jiressure on the gall duct. In one case this jiressure was very great, it being a f>lural jn-egnancy, with a large quantity of liquor amnii. This case went to the full time, but the other miscarried, about a fort- night after the jaundice aj)peared. The child was dead. Some cases happen at an earlier jDeriod, owing, as is 2)ointed out by Churchill (who gives an excellent account of the disease in his work on “ Diseases of Women,” 5th ed., 642), and others, to reflex influences— symj^athy betweeh the uterus and the chylopoietic viscera. This form is less iujurious, more amenable to](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24991235_0628.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
