On the evils resulting from rising too early after childirth.

Date:
[between 1800 and 1899]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the evils resulting from rising too early after childirth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

    24/36 (page 22)
    just as liable to take place after first deliveries as after subsequent deliveries. The number of diseases which may result from resuming too early the erect posture after child- birth are almost indefinite ; but I have merely alluded to those which are most easily understood, and, except in the rarer case of sudden death, occur most frequently. In order to enforce and strengthen still more the various statements which have been made, and to show what experience has taught some of the most eminent obstetric physicians of the day as regards the importance of rest after delivery, I have abstracted from five works nearest at hand the remarks made by their authors on the subject under our consideration. I have converted some of the medical terms into those intelligible to unprofessional persons. Mr. Baker Brown, in speaking of the causes which produce falling of the womb, says, One most common cause is the too early adop- tion, or too long continuance, of the erect posture after delivery or miscarriage, before the womb and its connections have recovered themselves in position, size, and tone ; i.e., speaking generally] before the end of the third or fourth week.