Treatise on midwifery and the diseases of women and children with remedies / by A. I. Coffin.

  • Coffin, A. I., (Albert Isaiah), approximately 1790-1866.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Treatise on midwifery and the diseases of women and children with remedies / by A. I. Coffin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    more singulai', there was a strong action, like that of a full-grown child in the ■\A'omb. We confess frankly, that on the first examination, Ave believed her to be pregnant, but in the course of treatment, we found that the motion was caused by a muscular contraction of the womb. We commenced by giving her the warm bitters, in a strong tea of raspberry-leaves, and in two days a vapour-bath, and an emetic of lobelia ] also an injection, made in the following manner :—half a teaspoonful of lobelia herb, and a quarter each of valerian-root and cayenne, in half a pint of strong raspberry- leaf-tea ; in the course of one month, by pursuing this treatment, giving an emetic about twice a week, and an injection every night, causing her to take raspberry-leaf-tea and pepper through the day, she began to menstruate, and all the symptoms which indicated pregnancy, gradually disappeared. She was some years afterwards married, and bore several children. THE MANNER OF CIRCULATION BE- TWEEN THE MOTHER AND CHILD Has been a subject of dispute by the physicians of the old school, but it is now generally allowed that the communication between the parent and child is carried on entirely by means of the placenta, whose spongy surface adheres to the internal surface of the womb, and receives the
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