Volume 1
An introduction to the practice of midwifery / [Thomas Denman].
- Thomas Denman
- Date:
- 1805
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An introduction to the practice of midwifery / [Thomas Denman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![of the body. They are alfo expofed to fome ])ecullar complaints, and to accidents at the time of parturition, of which we ought to be well informed, that we may by our care pre- vent them, or give fuch relief as may be requi- red when they have unavoidably happened. The lalna and nymphe^, as might be expedled from their fatty and cellular texture, are liable to elongation, to excrefcences, and to the pro- duction of feirrhous tumours; which in fome inftances have grown to an enormous fize, ef- pccially in hot climates For preferving all thefe parts in a healthy ftate, nothing is more beneficial than the daily and liberal ufe of cold water. It is not unufual and perhaps not unnatural, for one of the lahia or of the nympha to be fomewhat larger and more pendulous than the other; but neither the enlargement, nor elon- gation, is to be regarded as a difeafe, till fome inconvenience is produced by it. The fame obfervation may be rriade of excrefcences or feirrhous tumours, which are therefore gene- rail}' found to have acquired a confiderable fizc before they are divulged by the patient. In all the fubordinate degrees of thefe com^ plaints, when there is reafon to think that they arife from fome conftitutional caufc, relief may be given by fuch medicines ‘ or treatment, as * Nymphac aliquando enormes funt; quare Coptae ef ]\Iauri cas circumcidunt. Haller. Fhypolog,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22039697_0001_0119.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
