Thomsonian practice of midwifery : and treatment of complaints peculiar to women and children / By J.W. Comfort, M.D.

  • Comfort, J. W. (John W.)
Date:
1845
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Credit: Thomsonian practice of midwifery : and treatment of complaints peculiar to women and children / By J.W. Comfort, M.D. 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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    M. CONTENTS, TREATMENT OF LINGERING AND DIFFICULT LABOUR, 76 Attention to the state of the Bladder, 81 Vomiting beneficial during Labour, 82 Lobelia as a Relaxant and an efficient Promoter of the ex- celling Power of the Womb, - - ib. Lingering and Difficult Labour from the ossification of the os coccygis [or last bone of the spine,] - 85 Protracted and Difficult Labour from the Face of the Child presenting first, ... 83 To prevent unnatural presentations, 88 Of BREECH PRESENTATIONS, - - • 8§ Of twins, - Of CROSS BIRTHS, Of arm and shoulder presentations. Presentation of the umbilical cord, 95 97 98 105 Puerperal convulsions, - 107 Preventive Treatment, .... 113 Attention to the Breathing important as a means of prevent- ing Congestion of blood in the Brain, - - ib. CHAPTER IV. SECTION I. OF DISEASES PECULIAR TO LYING-IN WOMEN. Child-bed fever, ----- 114 Treatment of Child-bed Fever, - - 120 Of Emetics, - - - . ib. The Vapour Bath, ----- 121 Injections, ------ ib. Fomentations and Poultices, - 122 Diet, ------ 123 Preventive Means, - 124 Crisis Symptoms, - 125 SECTION 11. Milk Chill, - . - 126 SECTION III. Milk-Leg, - - - - - 127 SECTION IT. Ephemeral Fever, [one day Fever] or Weid, - 1S1
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