An essay on uterine hemorrhages depending on pregnancy and parturition / by Thomas Denman, M. D. licentiate in midwifery, of the College of Physicians.

Thomas Denman

Date:: 1786

Credit: An essay on uterine hemorrhages depending on pregnancy and parturition / by Thomas Denman, M. D. licentiate in midwifery, of the College of Physicians. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$ccflary ; and I have never praclifed it, nor evsr troubled myfelf with the ftate of the uterus, unlefs it was inverted, after the placenta was brought away ; but have left whatever coagula it contained, to be expellecl by its pwn action. Th.e fainting which follows hemorrhages was confidered as an effect produced, or a remedy pro- vided, for their fuppreffion. It was alfo faid, that the medicines given, or the means ufed, did fer- yice, according to the degree of chilneis they oc- cafioned, and the llacknefs of the circulation which followed. We were cautioned not to remove this faintnefs by the exhibition of cordials, left with {he return of the circulation? there fliould be a re- newal of the hemorrhage; at leaft till we haci given fufficient time for the contraction of thp veffels and other circumftances to take place, be- fore the patient revived. But when we prefume jhofe effects are produced, nourifhment and mil^ cordials may be given in fmall quantities often re- peated?. The Ju/ap. Fitcf of Bates, whjch is corn- pofed of wai n] wine and the yelks of eggs, with * Chapman mention? a compliment paid him by Sir Ri- chard B'lachnore, in a cafe of this kind, which ihews g; e..t accuracy of diihn&iorj. If, faid Sir Richard, you had ufed left cold applications, this patient would have died from the iqfs of blood; and if you had continued thet i longer, you would have extinguished the powers of life. the$