Practical observations on the child-bed fever; also on the nature and treatment of uterine haemorrhages, convulsions, and such other acute diseases as ... fatal to women during the state of pregnancy - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1775 Excerpt: ...face. I directed eight ounces of blood to be taken away, and one of the antimonial powders to be given soon after, which was to be repeated.every two or three hours, if the first had no sensible effect. An emollient clyster was administered, and bladders of warm water were applied to the soles of her feet and sides: She passed a restless night, without any abatement of the pain or difficulty of breathing. Two of the powders were taken, the first of which created a nausea, but did not prove emetic, nor produce any considerable perspiration. The blood was not so sizy as I expected. lath. The pulse being full, hard, and-frequent, her stdn dry, and respiration difficult and painful; eight ounces more blood were drawn; the powders were repeated every four or five hours, and a blister was applied to the affected side in the the evening: She drank plentifully of the common emulsion with nitre, to prevent the strangury, and to relieve her difficulty of making water, which had been troublesome to her from the beginning, nth. Had no sleep the preceding night; and as both the pain in her head and difficulty of breathing still increased, she was again blooded in the night, to the quantity of six ounces, as I had previously directed, in case the symptoms became urgent. She was much relieved soon after this last bleeding; the pain abated, and jthe could then breathe with much more freedom and ease; her pulse became more soft and less frequent, and a free and equal perspiration broke out all over her body. At this time she began to be troubled with a cough, and was much opprefled with white viseid phlegm, which was expectorated with great difficulty: She had had two stools, with a large discharge of fæces, which came away with the second clyster. The last drawn blood...
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