Clinical lectures on the diseases of women and children / by Gunning S. Bedford.

  • Gunning S. Bedford
Date:
1859
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Credit: Clinical lectures on the diseases of women and children / by Gunning S. Bedford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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    you how the eye should be cleansed, and the manner in which the collyrium and nitrate of silver should be employed. I place the child's head in this manner on my knee, allowing the body to rest on the la]) of the mother. Then, with a piece of fine sponge, moistened with tepid water, I remove the matter from the eye, and immediately, with another piece of sponge, bathe the eye freely with the following collyrium: 5 Oxymuriat. Hydrarg gr. ss Sal Ammoniac gr. ij Aquffi distillat. 3 iv Ft. sol. When the eye has been thus cleansed, and after the application of the collyrium, the conjunctiva should be freely touched by means of a camel's hair pencil with the following solution : 5 Nitrat. Argenti gr. V Aquse distOlat. § i Ft. sol. Such is the activity of the inflammation, that it will be necessary, in addition to these means, to have recourse to one or more small blisters behind the ear, and this should be done from the very commencement, for the purpose of diverting as speedily as possible from the eye. To prevent the agglutination of the lids, you will find much benefit from the use of the red precipitate ointment. Fomentations with laud- anum and tepid water will be indicated, should there be much pain about the eye. The diet to consist exclusively of diluents. Suppression of the Menses from Cold, in a young Woman, aged TWENTY-ONE Years, COMPLICATED WITH Pthisis Pulmonalis.—Margaret D., aged twenty-one years, unmarried, menstruated for the first time in her fourteenth year. How long, Margaret, have you been in ill health ? For the last six months, sir. Was your health always good prior to that time ? Yes, sir; I was a healthy girl, and never lost a day's work by sickness. What occurred six months ago to derange your health ? My courses stopped upon me, sir. Do you know what caused them to stop, Margaret ? I was washing, sir, and became very much heated; and I foolishly, without any shoes or stockings, walked on cold damp flags. Were you menstruating at the time V Yes, sir. And after you walked on the flags, your courses became suppressed? Yes, sir. Have you had them since that time? No, sir. You have a very bad cough ; how long have you had it, my good girl ? I took the cough, sir, about four weeks after my courses stopped; and it has been increasing ever since. You have been losing flesh, have you not f Oh! sir, I am wasted to almost nothing. Does your cough trouble you much? Yes, sir; I can not get any rest, particularly at night. Do you spit up much ? Yes, sir; I suppose I spit more than a pint of corrupted-looking stuff during the 2