The London practice of midwifery : including the most important diseases of women and children. Chiefly designed for the use of students and early practitioners / by Geo. Jewel, M.D.

  • Jewel, George, active approximately 1833.
Date:
1833
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Credit: The London practice of midwifery : including the most important diseases of women and children. Chiefly designed for the use of students and early practitioners / by Geo. Jewel, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at once freely opened. In the general treatment of the case, if there should evidently be a determination to the cerebral vessels indicated by a flushed face, and a throbbing of the arteries of the temples and neck, blood should be abstracted without loss of time, by the application of leeches to the temples or forehead, or by cupping from the nape of the neck, or behind the ears. Purgatives should never be neglected, particularly if the bowels are confined, or the stools unnatural. Opium has been recommended by some writers; and, when the case has continued, in spite of the means recommended, and the face looks pale, and there is debility or irritation in the bowels, it may be administered with great advantage in one of its various forms, such as the compound ipecacuanha powder. A stimulating embrocation rubbed into the spine, after the bleeding, purging, &c, will sometimes afford relief.] There is a disease, a species of convulsions, at the name of which some medical men choose to sneer; the complaint is inward fits : a name is of little conse- quence as long as it designates the disease, and this name certainly does very well. The inward fits attack suddenly, accompanied with a purple colour of the lips, cheeks, &c.: this lasts for a time, when the child comes out perfectly well. They seem to be the effect of a spasm of some part about the heart. The ex- citing cause is often irritation in the bowels, winch is frequently relieved by the means used in other convul- sions. If cordial medicines are given, the paroxysms will become shorter, or the paroxysms becoming worse, the patient dies purple. The foetid clyster should not be omitted in these cases.
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