Practical essays on the management of pregnancy and labour, and on the inflammatory and febrile diseases of lying-in women / by John Clarke, M. D. physician to the General Lying-in Hospital in Store-Street, and to the Asylum for Female Orphans; and Teacher of Midwifery in London.

  • John Clarke
Date:
1793
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Credit: Practical essays on the management of pregnancy and labour, and on the inflammatory and febrile diseases of lying-in women / by John Clarke, M. D. physician to the General Lying-in Hospital in Store-Street, and to the Asylum for Female Orphans; and Teacher of Midwifery in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    weakefl: conftitutions) to omit taking away blood from the fyftem, becaufe this, by im- mediately diminifhing the quantity of the cir- culating fluids, contributes in a peculiar man- ner to relieve moft difeafes of the lungs. The other methods of treatment ufually prefcribed in thefe complaints, fuch as topical bleeding, the application of ftimulants ex- ternally, and the ufe of relaxants and demul- cents internally, are fo well known, to every medical man, that I need not enlarge upon them in this place. By paying a conftant attention to thefe points, we fhall fo condu£t a woman through the ftate of pregnancy, that (he will fall into labour in perfect health, and with the confti- tution prepared to fuftain the violence of the exertions employed during the progrefs of it^ and this without the moft remote danger of difeafe being produced afterwards. ESSAY
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