The Dublin practice of midwifery / By Henry Maunsell, M. D., with notes and additions by Chandler R. Gilman.

  • Henry Maunsell
Date:
1842
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Credit: The Dublin practice of midwifery / By Henry Maunsell, M. D., with notes and additions by Chandler R. Gilman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    akin, the debility and the profuse discharge act and react as cause and effect upon each other. To such cases tonics and the mineral acids are appropriate. I know of no better form than, R. Rad, Columbo, Cont. sii., Cort Aurant, 3j. aqua bull., a pint. A wine glass full, to which elix. vitrol, gtt., x, is to be added is a dose, to be taken once or twice a day.*] Milk commences to be secreted during the last days of gestation, and often much earlier. During the act of parturition, and for a few hours after- wards, a degree of fever exists, which often sus- pends the secretion for the time ; but the popular notion, that it does not come until the third day, is quite unfounded, and leads to injurious practical results. After the woman has rested and slept a little, (say in ten or twelve hours,) the child may be applied to her breasts, generally with much advan- tage to herself and it. The constant removal of the milk as fast as it is secreted effectually prevents ac- cumulation in the gland, and the distension and fever consequent upon it, which otherwise would happen about the third day, and the occurrence of which has given rise to the popular prejudice alluded to. If it be manifest, however, that there is no secre- tion in the breast, it is not advisable to keep the child applied, as its determined efforts to extract * Introducing this little prescription gives me an opportunity to pay a tribute of respect, to the individual from whom I first had it—that most able practitioner, and honourable man, Wright Post, M. D., late Professor of Anatomy, in the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
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