Parturition and its difficulties : with clinical illustrations and statistics of 13,783 deliveries / by John Hall Davis.

  • Davis, John Hall.
Date:
1865
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    cumbed, notwithstanding every effort then made for her recovery, with a supporting regimen, and favouring an external escape for the matter. At an earlier period of the case, when the lochia became offensive, disinfecting uterine injections should have been resorted to. In 1, pycemia or blood-poisoning after a fifth labour; lingering; child still-born. Shivering on fifth day, with suppression of milk and lochia ; general pyrexia, with dif- fused tenderness of the abdomen, till the fourth week, when diarrhcea set in with constant vomiting. Her recovery some- times seemed improbable;however, being abundantby supplied with nourishment and stimulants, night and day, she event- ually recovered. Turpentine stupes, opiates, medicines to allay vomiting; tonics were judiciously resorted to, as indi- cated at the corresponding periods of the case. In 1, fever and shivering, with offensive lochial dis- charge, on the third day after delivery, procured by the induction of labour, for repeated and exhausting haemor- rhages. The vagina and the uterus were at once syringed out with the antiseptic warm lotion on three different occasions. This, with an anodyne diaphoretic mixture, and subsequently quinine, was followed by recovery. In 1, pelvic inflammation, consequent on a fall over a chain in the docks, shortly before labour. The paiu was severe, and the patient very weak. Turpentine stupes were applied two or three times ; and hot bran poultices to the abdomen were renewed every hour to promote free diaphoresis over that part. Dover's powder was given every four hours to keep up a gentle soporific effect. This, with castor-oil on the third day of treatment, and subse- quently tonics, completed the cure. In 2, abdominal cellulitis.—In these cases hot fomenta- tions and linseed poultices were renewed every two hours]; anodyne diaphoretics given. They recovered. In 1, inflammation of vagina and sloughing, which left a vesico-vaginal fistula of the size of a five-shilling piece,