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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![ti’eatment than that arising from compression and other causes, and usually passes off again in a short time. Coma has sometimes supervened and proved fatal. There was an epidemic of jaundice in the Island of Martinique in 1858, which attacked pregnant females largely, and caused death in many cases. Jaundice, concurring with pregnancy, is more com- mon in America than in this country. Query : Is that owing to the thorough contempt of many persons there for leisurely feeding, and their underestimate of the value of saliva, as pointed out by Dickens, Sala, and other ■wmiters 1 There must inevitably be impaired action of the alimentary system (we say it without joking) in any country where the food is bolted, and where the juices of the mouth, instead of finding their natural way into the stomach, go bespattering alike the floors of the dwelling, the shop, the gilded saloon, and Congress even. We know of few greater follies than this, and would not now Avonder Avere the next ingenious invention to be some machine for pumping out the gastric juice from the stomach, and discharging it into the .street as a superfluity. Abortion is a frequent result in icterus during preg- nancy, and, as Ave luxA^e seen, a fatal termination may come about. Those cases occun-ing early, and being reflex, are likely to do best. Treatment.—We cannot resort to very active treat- ment during pu-egnancy, but the liver may be acted on by moderate doses of ])il. hydrarg. or podophyllin, &c. The female should rest a good deal on her left side, if Ave think the disease due to pressure. 589. Eczema of the Vulva.—This is by no means an uncommon affection, and avc have seen several cases where it occasioned no little distress during pregnancy, and also some impediment during laliour. It is com- mon for it to attack the labia, the space between these and the thighs, and along the perineum. We have seen a chronic case (and it is very apt to emerge into this](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24991235_0629.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
