Obstetric aphorisms for the use of students commencing midwifery practice / by Joseph Griffiths Swayne.

  • Swayne, Joseph Griffiths.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Obstetric aphorisms for the use of students commencing midwifery practice / by Joseph Griffiths Swayne. 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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    The pulse is soft and compressible; sometimes slower, but much more frequently faster than usual. The countenance is j^ale and anxious, the tongue moist and tolerably clean, the skin soft and perspirable. When the lieadache depends upon constipation or disordered boweLs, the tongue Avill be coated ^^ ith fur, and veiy probably red at its tips and edges. Should it depend upon any inflanimatory affection of the abdominal organs, the secretions of milk and lochia Avill be checked. Should there be much tendency to syncope, a stethoscopio examination of the heart should be made, to ascertain whether there is any organic disease of that organ. Treatment of Nercou^i Sliocl'. 63. When there is a severe nervous shock after delivery, the best remedy is an opiate combined with a diffusible stimulant; and this may be repeated, if necessary, in smaller doses every four hours. The most perfect repose should be enjoined. The head should be placed rather lower than usual, and the horizontal posture strictly maintained. The following draught will answer the purpose very well :— E> Liq. Morphine Hydrochlor., inxxx. Spt. Amnion. Arom., Ss-*- Aq, Camph. ad 5iss. ir. ft. Haustus statim sumend. Or this :— ]R Liq. Morphia? Acetat., ttixxx. Trie. SumbuL, itixx. Spt. Chloroform., itlx. Aq. Camph. ad 5iss, ]\I. ft. Haustus statim sumend.