The Dublin practice of midwifery / by Henry Maunsell.

  • Henry Maunsell
Date:
1856
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    it is almost impossible tliat anything unpleasant could occur. The pains are sometimes suspended at first^ when the vapour is inhaled: they soon, however, return, and then, unless too great an effect is subsequently produced, they continue with regularity. The tendency to hemorrhage after deHvery is certainly increased by the use of the medicine, and therefore particular care must be observed, after the birth of the child, to guard against this very unpleasant consequence. In any case where hemorrhage has been known to have occiirred after previous labours, the precaution of giving a full dose of ergot of rye, just as the child^s head is passing through the vulva, should be adopted. This practice, as formerly recommended by Dr. Beatty, as a means of preventing hemorrhage in patients predisposed to it, wiU be foimd to be of great value in such cases when chloroform is employed. The recovery after chloroform has been used is rapid and safe. It is observed that there is less of that great exhaustion that follows long and difficult labours. The nervous system has been saved to a great degree, and the vital energy of the patient not being diminished, she soon regains her former state of strength and health.
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