The Dublin practice of midwifery / By Henry Maunsell.

  • Henry Maunsell
Date:
1834
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    a mild warm kind * ; and it is not necessary that its effects should be very powerful. As the patient’s nights are generally sleepless, we shall find great advantage from giving ten grains of Dover’s powder and two or three of calomel at bed-time. I think it is generally advisable to give calomel and anti- monial powder, so as slightly to affect the mouth, but I should by no means recommend any attempt at speedy salivation. A grain of each three times a day, with the addition of two or three grains of Dover’s powder, should the bowels not be confined, will be quite sufficient. The regimen should be antiphlogistic, and strict rest enjoined. After the inflammation has subsided, we must alter our hand, and endeavour judiciously to improve the tone of the constitution. A light nutritious diet may be allowed, change of air, or at all events free venti- lation obtained, and the digestive organs improved by the use of light bitters and mineral acids, f While we are acting in this way, however, we shall fre- quently have to attend to I’ecurring signs of local inflammation, and should always meet them by the application of leeches. The limb must be still kept at perfect rest, in a horizontal position, but when it is able to bear slight frictionswiththehand, these will be found serviceable, as will also spongingwith tepid * As the infusion of senna, or the rhubarb draught, already specified. t Inf. Cascarillae, Mist. Camphorae, aa. ^iij.. Sod® Subcarb. 5 ss., Sp. Ammon, aromat. gs. xxx. M. Sum. 5 j. ter quotidie.
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