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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    to contain a peculiar milky deposit^ and tlie pulse, during gestation, is commonly very rapid; I have known it beat 140 in a minute, in a healthy woman. The popular notion, that the blood is always buffed during pregnancy, is, according to my opinion (founded upon numerous observational, merely a popvdar fallacy. Sympathies of the Breasts.—Very often the earliest symptom of pregnancy is a sensation of weight, pain, and swelling of the breasts. It fre- quently occurs in the first month, and before the time when the non-appearance of the menses would give reason to suspect the state of the case. Shortly after conception (about the second or third month), some remarkable changes take place in those organs. They grow larger and firmer, and their glandular structure becomes evidently more developed, sometimes so much so as to be attended with a secretion of milk. At the same time, the areola around the nipple becomes usually darker in colour, moister upon its surface, and covered with a number of small papillae. The latter changes are considered by many, and, I believe, with reason, as very certain signs of preg- nancy : they apply, however, with more force to first cases, as the areola, after having been once changed, seldom resumes its virgin characters so perfectly as to enable us to recognise, with facility, subsequent alterations. We have also to recollect
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