On flooding after delivery and its scientific treatment : with a special chapter on the preventive treatment / by Lumley Earle.

Date:
1865
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Credit: On flooding after delivery and its scientific treatment : with a special chapter on the preventive treatment / by Lumley Earle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    as tlie patient is vmdressed. It ought to be passed (tlie patient standing up) once round tiie abdomen outside the skirt, and made to reach a little above the fundus of the uterus and a little below the hips, and then pinned four or five times on the right side of the patient. It should not be drawn tight except in cases where the uterus is very much anteverted from great flaccidity of the abdominal walls, as it would pre- vent the fundus from taking the natural forward movement during a contraction. I used to put on the binder after delivery, but to arljust it pro])erly while in the recumbent posture requires a considerable amount of exertion on the part of the mother, as some difficulty is generally found in getting the lower edge well under the hii)s ; and sometimes it gets twisted, then it has to be removed and re-ap])licd. There are many ad- vantages in adjusting the binder before delivery : 1, Perfect rest of body is ensured. 2, llic binder can be more easily and more equally applied. 3, By