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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    or constipation, and, hj interfering with the free return of the blood, produce or aggravate piles. The great blood-vessels which traverse the pelvis in their course to or from the lower extremities, as well as the numerous lymphatics, are also fi'e- quently subjected to interruption of their fimc- tions from pressure of the enlarged uteinis, to which may be traced the varices and cedema of the limbs so common in pregnancy. The pressure, also, upon the great nerves may satisfactorily explain the numbness and cramps of the legs frequently complained of dm'ing labour, and at the latter periods of gestation.
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