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.

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    sion of the bowels. A profuse watery diarrhoea, occurring with these favourable changes, seemed to him to be critical. The authority of Michgelis would justify the use of ice, and in a case marked by burning pain and urgent thirst, if the ice was grateful to the patient, I should expect good effects from it. It ought to be tried at any rate.] In the treatment of all these species, we are to recollect that the one frequently runs into the other, and that they must always be managed accord- ing to the symptoms, and not upon any preconceived notion respecting their type. To no malady, in- deed, is the excellent advice of Sydenham more ap- propiate, to find out, in the first place, the genius of epidemic diseases, which, though they may seem alike to the unwary, because in some sort they do agree, to outward appearance, yet, if seriously con- sidered, are very different. Emetics, antimonial preparations, and various other remedies of all kinds, have, as might have been expected in so fatal a disease, been recom- mended for the treatment of puerperal fever ; but, my object being simply to give a plain statement of what I conceive to be useful in practice, I think it would be exceeding my limits to enter into the con- sideration of speculations of this kind, which are not supported by solid practical foundations. [Within the last few years the attention of the profession has been specially directed by Mar- shall Hall, and others, to a form of puerperal dis- ease dependent on intestinal irritation. This may readily be mistaken by the unwary for puerperal
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