Advice to a wife and mother in two parts : embracing Advice to a wife and Advice to a mother / by Pye Henry Chavasse.

  • Q52148313
Date:
1881
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Credit: Advice to a wife and mother in two parts : embracing Advice to a wife and Advice to a mother / by Pye Henry Chavasse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    in appearance very much like blood from a recenty cut finger.* 203. The menstrual fluid ought not, as before ob- served, to clot. If it does, a lady, during menstruation, suffers intense pain; moreover, she seldom conceives until the clotting has ceased. Application must there- fore, in such a case, be made to a medical man, who will soon relieve the above painful symptoms, and, by doing so, will probably pave the way to her becoming pregnant. 204. Menstruation ceases entirely in pregnancy, dur- ing suckling, and usually both in diseased and in dis- ordered states of the womb. It also ceases in cases of extreme debility, and in severe illness, especially in con- sumption ; indeed, in the latter disease—consumption —it is one of the most unfavorable of the symptoms. 205. It has been asserted, and by men of great ex- perience, that sometimes a woman menstruates during pregnancy. In this assertion I cannot agree; it appears utterly impossible that she should be able to do so. The moment she conceives, the neck of the womb be- comes plugged up by means of mucus; it is, in fact, * The catamenial 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. Carpenter's Human Physiology