The obstetrician's vademecum; or aphorisms on natural and difficult parturition; the application and use of instruments in preternatural labours; on labours complicated with hemorrhage, convulsions, etc / Considerably Augmented and arranged according to the present state of obstetricy, by Michael Ryan.
- Thomas Denman
- Date:
- 1836
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The obstetrician's vademecum; or aphorisms on natural and difficult parturition; the application and use of instruments in preternatural labours; on labours complicated with hemorrhage, convulsions, etc / Considerably Augmented and arranged according to the present state of obstetricy, by Michael Ryan. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![5. It will always be necessary to take away some blood, and commonly to repeat the bleed- ing; and it has been found particularly service- able to open the jugular vem; or to take away blood by cupping; and by applying leeches to the temples. [Blood-letting is not always neces- sary or useful. It is injurious to nervous, hys- terical, and delicate women, who are often re- lieved by sedatives, such as opium, camphor, &c. In women of relaxed, irritable, and debilitated constitutions, convulsions are often dependent on hysteria or epilepsy. Itis this form of the dis- ease that is termed eclampsia, and cured by large doses of opium, ether, camphor, hyoscyamus, &c. M. R.] Enmetics, when they could be given, have been useful, as has sometimes also the warm bath. Clysters may be frequently exhibited. Opiates, joined with nervous medicines, may be given; and the patient is, by all the means in our power, to be soothed and restrained from violent exertions. 6. During the convulsions, the means by which contrary irritations may be excited are to be used ; and of these the most powerful is, the dashing of cold water in the face, which has been known to prevent, or even to cure, convulsions. 7. Some writers have recommended the speedy delivery of the patient, as the most eligible, and only effectual method of removing puerperal con-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3328653x_0209.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
