Principles of midwifery, or puerperal medicine. / By John Aitken, M.D.

  • John Aitken
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[1784]
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Credit: Principles of midwifery, or puerperal medicine. / By John Aitken, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2. Coftivcnefs. Coflivenefs is generally prevalent, efpecially towards the laft months of pregnancy : Partly refulting from the diltended uterus. Cure. Coftivenefs is befi: counterafted by, 1. Diet, which may partly confift of ripe fruit; 2. Exercife, efpecially in a carriage ; 3. Eccoprotics, fuch as aloetlcs,foluble tartar, mag- nefia, See. repeated occafionally. 3. If churl a. Ifchuria vefcalis, or fupprejfon of the excretion of the urine, is here meant. This painful afFedlion is me- chanically induced by the prejfure of the uterus, when it rifes towards the brim of the pelvis. The difeafe, therefore, happens ofteneft about the third month of pregnancy. Cure. The difeharge of the urine is procured by, 1. Alteration of pofture ; 2. The catheter. 4. Retroverfio Uteri. Retroverfon is a falling back of the fundus uteri in- to the cavity of the os facrum, fo that the os internum rifes proportionally to the interior furface of the olfa pubis. It occurs about the fourth month of preg- nancy*.. Symptoms. • London Medical Transitions. ?yftematic Elements of Surgery.