A treatise on midwifery, and the diseases of women and children.

  • Albert Isaiah Coffin
Date:
1849
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Credit: A treatise on midwifery, and the diseases of women and children. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    hours give an emetic of half a teaspoonful each of lobelia herb aji^^'^eS^^d valerian root, fine, in a cupful of o^mptJsition .^, having the patient in bed, with/g^J^t brick to the feet, and one on each side, wm^edf in,^oths>vit v^ith vinegar ; repeat the em^^ S neo^sary, ^ipv which an injection in the udijQ way,^^epi]^ ^yfe patient calm and quiet. This Jffe- be^^peated^^til the symptoms are re- lievedX Qn case oi-^ Mdden attack, use the acid tinctures^iol^^lia^NJ^pouring a tablespoonful into the moum5**«5liitet the patient is in a convulsed state, and °as soon as it reaches the base of the brain, it will immediately restore animation ; you may then proceed to administer the emetic as be- fore directed. FLOODING Occasionally takes place during pregnancy, and generally precedes abortion. It is defined by the faculty as a vague or irregular issue of blood from the uterus, subject to no periodical returns, but liable to recur from very slight occasional causes. It arises in consequence of a separation of some portion of the placenta from the uterus. Floodings must always be looked upon as dangerous, from the increased size of the blood vessels, but seldom prove fatal to the mother before the sixth or se- venth month of pregnancy, yet there is always ap- prehension for the safety of the child in the early period. One case we will particularize, together with the treatment adopted, though it comes more directly under the head of abortion.
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