On flooding after delivery and its scientific treatment : with a special chapter on the preventive treatment / by Lumley Earle.
- Earle, J. Lumley (James Lumley), 1840-1870.
- Date:
- 1865
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On flooding after delivery and its scientific treatment : with a special chapter on the preventive treatment / by Lumley Earle. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![frequently put into force by students is, to take a jug of cold water and to pour it from a con- siderable height upon the abdomen. This rough procedure often answers admirably, but it makes the patient and the bed in a frightful mess. I must confess I am very chary of wetting the clothes of a flooding patient more than I can ])ossibly help. I have seen two cases of pelvic cellulitis, occurring in women after flooding which I firmly believe was in a great measure brought on by their having to lie for hours in clothes soaking wet. I do not say that the douch- ing from a height should never be done, as cases do arise in which the uterus will respond to no other stimulus, but I think it is better first to try more gentle means of applying cold. Besides cold externally to the uterus, cold may l)e also applied to the vulva. It is generally done by means of napkins frequently dipped in cold water. In some cases I have seen good (lone apparently by wiping, in addition, the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20413087_0086.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
