The Dublin practice of midwifery / by Henry Maunsell.

  • Henry Maunsell
Date:
1856
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Credit: The Dublin practice of midwifery / by Henry Maunsell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    as it indicates room in the pelvis, and a disposition to act upon the part of the uterus. About the same time, the woman becomes restless and anxious: if her bladder or rectum be irritable, she perhaps suffers from strangmy or tenesmus in a greater or lesser degree; an increased mucous discharge takes place fr-om the vagina, and she may have flying pains and stitches tlirough the loius and ab- domen. This is a common course, but in some instances labour begins at once, without any warning whatsoever. It is not unusual for the flying paius which have been just mentioned to occur many days before labour, and to assume a degree of severity which induces the attendants to suppose that that process has actually commenced; they are then called false j)ains, and requii'e some attention on the part of the practitioner, to enable him to distinguish them from the true pains. They often arise from over-fatigue of the abdominal muscles, or from accumtdations of air or faeces in the intes- tines, and, as they recur irregularly, without pro- ducing any effect upon the os uteri, and weary the patient tmprofitably, they sometimes require medical treatment. A mild aperient of rhubarb or castor oil, where the bowels are confined, followed by an anodyne draught*, or the latter * Tinct. Opii, gts. xxv. vel xxx. a 3
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