The Dublin practice of midwifery / by Henry Maunsell.

  • Henry Maunsell
Date:
1856
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    stomaclij producing nausea and vomiting; of tlie nervoiis system, giving rise to irritability of tem- per, anomalous pains, salivation, &c.; and of the breasts, causing a painful development of their glandular substance, and a change of coloui' in the areola svu'rouiiding the nipple; 3. the motion of the foetus in utero (denominated quickening); 4. alterations in the uterus as to its general size, and as to the condition of particular parts, as the os and cervix; and 5. the auscidtatory evidence as to the pulsations of the foetal heart, and the pla- centary sound. tSi/j7j)ression of the Menses.—This sign is one which we must take entirely upon trust from the report of the patient. It may also be a morbid symptom; so that its existence per se is no evi- dence of pregnancy. On the other hand, the pre- sence of the menses affords merely presumptive proof of the non-existence of the same state, as it is well known that discharges similar to the men- strual may oeem regularly diu-ing gestation. We should only value it, therefore, in connection with other symptoms ; but if such exist, and amenorrhcea continues without loss of health, we have, at all events, good grounds for suspicion. Sy/npathies of the Stomach.—Nausea and vomit- ing are very constant attendants upon conception, occurring sometimes immediately after impreg- nation, but generally about the third or fom-th
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