The Dublin practice of midwifery / By Henry Maunsell.

  • Henry Maunsell
Date:
1834
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Credit: The Dublin practice of midwifery / By Henry Maunsell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the horizontal to the erect posture, and are there- fore called “ morning sickness.” In ordinary cases the vomiting is attended with little general disturb- ance, hunger being felt immediately after the stomach has been emptied; but, in some instances, the irritability continues throughout the whole day, during the entire period of gestation, and is at- tended with much distress. Sympathies of the nervous System. — These are of little importance, conveying, of themselves, no practical information. I have known salivation, which I can consider merely as a nervous sym- pathy, to continue profusely during the greater part of a pregnancy, and cease immediately after partu- rition, without being productive of any bad effects- Under this head we may, perhaps, also include the capriciousness of appetite and temper often ob- served in pregnant women, and the anomalous pains, toothaches, &c., of which they occasionally complain. Neither am I aware of any other set of voords which we can use in place of explanation of the changes that occur in the circulating and uri- nary systems. The urine has been observed to contain a peculiar milky deposit, and the pulse, during gestation, are commonly very rapid ; I have known them 140 in a minute, in a healthy woman. The popular notion, that the blood is always buffed during pregnancy, is, according to my opinion (founded upon numerous observations), merely a popular fallacy.
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