The domestic instructor in midwifery : containing directions for the proper treatment of sexual diseases of women; for the management of pregnancy, labor, & child-bed; also, for the treatment of new-born infants. Compiled for the advantage and use of such as have not access to a physician / By Dr. George Denig.

Denig, George.

Date:: 1838

Credit: The domestic instructor in midwifery : containing directions for the proper treatment of sexual diseases of women; for the management of pregnancy, labor, & child-bed; also, for the treatment of new-born infants. Compiled for the advantage and use of such as have not access to a physician / By Dr. George Denig. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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with flushings; the eye dull; the feet and ancles swolen; palpitation of the heart, and difficulty of breathing are experienced; the mind grows ap- prehensive or melancholly; dropsy or some oth- er acute disease supervenes and terminates a mi- serable existence. Now, this disease is in many instances curable, and their is reason to believe that the want of success in removing it, is more frequently owing to a neglect of timely applica- tion to a physician, or a want of sufficent per- severance in proper remedies, than to the incu- rable nature of the disease. This inattention to the disease in its primitive state, is owing in a great measure to the fact, that, in the first stage it is accompanied with little or no pain or sickness; these most assuredly follow one after the other, but even when forced by the severi- ty of those pains to make application to a physi- cian, they too frequently disguise from him the original cause of their suffering; disappointment must invariably be the consequence of such pro- ceeding. If the discharge be the consequence of ulceration, polypus, or other tumours of the uterus; or falling down of that organ; piles, or any other disease, the indirect irritation of which produces it, all remediate means must fail to give relief, until] the primary cause of the affection be removed.

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