Practical essays on the management of pregnancy and labour; and on the inflammatory and febrile diseases of lying-in women / By John Clarke.

  • John Clarke
Date:
1793
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    Many of the complaints of pregnancy de¬ pend upon irritation limply, and thefe gene¬ rally yield to time ; fuch are the ficknefs and vomiting, diarrhoea, &c. Sometimes, how¬ ever, thefe admit of palliation* Such as depend upon the preffure made by the increafing uterus upon the veins, abforb- ents, nerves, or other parts liable to it, are moft frequently found from the end of the fourteenth to that of the eighteenth week, and again from the end of the thirtieth to the conclufion of pregnancy. Such are piles, as alfo varicofe veins, and oedema, in the depend¬ ing parts; cramp, and fometimes partial, or total paralylis of the lower extremities. Thefe difeafes will commonly be relieved by quick¬ ening at the former period, by labour in the laft, and may in the mean time be fo far pal¬ liated by judicious treatment, that they rarely become dangerous* In one cafe, however, I was called to a patient, who from inability of motion in the lower extremities, for fome time before delivery, fuffered a mortification of the foft parts, covering the lower part of the fpine and the os facrum, of which fhe died* The Retroversion of the Uterus is
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