A letter to Dr. Edward Rigby [on complicated labour] / [James Hamilton].

  • James Hamilton
Date:
1837]
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Credit: A letter to Dr. Edward Rigby [on complicated labour] / [James Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 °> I --W From pursuing this method, it will often happen that the discharge goes off entirely ; and if the woman be not arrived at her full term, and she be kept very still and calm, that it does not re¬ turn before labour comes on ; but if it should continue, or return frequently, it will be right, if possible, to bring the uterus into a state of contraction, by exciting some pain, which may often be done by gently irritating the os uteri with the finger *, if this succeed, and the mouth of the uterus be thereby so far dilated, that the distended membranes may be felt, they must be immediately pierced by passing a probe along the finger, as upon the discharge of water thus produced, the womb necessarily contracts to a certain degree, and the flooding proportionably abates ; this is, for the most part, vsoon succeed¬ ed by slight pains, which, if the child present fair, have very soon an effect upon it, and push it down.” “ But if, notwithstanding the mode of treat¬ ment above recommended, the discharge should not lessen, if the evacuating the waters should
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