Letters to women on midwifery and the diseases of women : a descriptive and practical work ... illustrated with numerous cases of treatment / by Joel Shew.
- Joel Shew
- Date:
- 1887
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Letters to women on midwifery and the diseases of women : a descriptive and practical work ... illustrated with numerous cases of treatment / by Joel Shew. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![*ise would have been by the too great amount of local mears employed. In many such cases, doubtless, the breast has been made worse than it woul 1 have been had no treatment whatever been employed. As soon, therefore, as the patient begins to experience a chill coming upon her. with pains in the back, limbs, etc., together with a general uneasiness and restlessness, and, rJ>ha]>s, with an inflammation already commenced in one or both of the breasts, no time should be lost in setting at work resolut.lv to combat the approaching evil. The sooner we act, and the more prompt and resolute in the treatment, the greater the chance of preventing an abscess. We give the rubbing wet-sheet, if there is not already too much fever, the tepid shallow-hath, with a good deal of friction; a general cold-bath, if the patient is not too weak; the packing sheet, the wet girdle, wet compress upon the breasts, injections of tepid water, and follow up the applications as much and as often as the sympt, may demand. Above all. the patient should not be wo ricd by a multitude of ignorant and careless, thoug haps. Veil-meaning friends, who each and all insist th some particular poultice, or some favorite cure-all theirs will certainly arrest the difficulty, if the patient u but condescend to use it, and that if she keeps on with th. water, it will certainly cause the breast to break. 1! exceedingly foolish, ignorant, and prejudiced are the multi- tude in regard to these things! Every practitioner ol rater well understands low much we have to encoun tcr in society, because of the prevailing ignorance of the most common remedial uses of the greatest and mosl abundant of all curative agents which God has given t man.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21004055_0377.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
