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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    face of the fundus was pushed up beyond its os uteri, and at last the womb was found to be completely restored to its natural po- sition, but still containing my hand, which was now up as high as a little above the umbilicus. As no contraction came on im- mediately, I retained possession of the cavity of the womb, which I gently excited by moving my fingers within it, and finally a contraction came on which I suffered to push my hand out into the vagina. Upon withdrawing the right hand, I felt with the other the womb very firmly contracted in the lower belly, and enjoyed the satisfaction of complete success in this distressing case. Brandy and other stimulants were given freely to the patient to keep her from sinking. i(I am ready to admit [observess Dr. Meigs] that it might happen that a tonic contraction of an inverted uterus should come on at once, and last so long as to prevent the employment of the plan that I suggest; but I think it probable that it would always be practicable to return it, in any case where it had not been inverted more than four or five hours, by waiting for the moment of its greatest relaxation, and then first indenting the fundus, and afterwards pushing it steadily upwards through the os uteri, and so into the abdomen again. SECTION III. IRRITABILITY OF THE UTERUS. An unhealthy condition of the womb, attended with pain and tenderness, without any tendency to scirrhus or cancer is very common in delicate females. Irritability of the womb is the term usually applied to this kind of complaint Not unfrequently there is a low degree of inflammation of the womb attending dis- placement of the womb, which receives the appellation of chro- nic inflammation of the womb. And then again th* same cause,
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