Advice to a wife on the management of her own health : and on the treatment of some of the complaints incidental to pregnancy, labour, and suckling; with an introductory chapter especially addressed to a young wife.

  • Q52148313
Date:
1864
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Credit: Advice to a wife on the management of her own health : and on the treatment of some of the complaints incidental to pregnancy, labour, and suckling; with an introductory chapter especially addressed to a young wife. 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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    though it much resembles it both in appearance and in properties ; yet, in the healthy state, it never clots, as blood does.—It is a secretion from the womb, and, when healthy, ought to be of a bright-red colour, in appearance very much like blood from a recently cut finger.# 92. The menstrual fluid ought not, as before ob- served, to clot.—If it does, a lady suffers great pain •during menstruation.—Moreover, she seldom con- ceives until the clotting has ceased.—Therefore, in such a case, application must be made to a Medical man, who will soon relieve the above painful symp- toms. 93. Menstruation ceases entirely in pregnancy; during suckling; and usually in diseased and in dis- ordered states of the womb.—It also ceases in cases of extreme debility, and in severe illness, especially in consumption ; indeed, in the latter disease—consump- tion—it is one of the most unfavourable of the symp- toms. 94. It has been asserted, and by men of great ex- * 4i The eatainenial discharge, as it issues from the uterus [womb], appears to be nearly or quite identical with ordinary blood ; but in its passage through the vagina, it becomes mixed with the acid mucus exuded from its walls, which usually de- prives it of the power of coagulating. If the discharge should be profuse, however, a portion of its fibrin remains unaffected, and clots are formed.—Dr. Carpenters Human Physiology.