A treatise of midwifery, comprehending the management of female complaints and the treatment of children in early infancy ... for the use of female and other practitioners, and private families / by Alexander Hamilton.

  • Hamilton, Alexander, 1739-1802.
Date:
1785
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Credit: A treatise of midwifery, comprehending the management of female complaints and the treatment of children in early infancy ... for the use of female and other practitioners, and private families / by Alexander Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    an infufion of red madder (the dye fo called) in beer, with the fame view, and extol it with many encomiums. The proportion is two ounces to a Scots quart of beer, to (land infu- fed for two or three days ; the dofe a beer glafsful twice a-day ; or it may be given in fubflance, beginning with a hnall dofe, as fifteen grains of the powder, increaling it after- wards to a fcruple twice or even thrice a-day» Medicines given with a view to promote the menfes, fhoulcl be begun about a week before the expected return, and continued for a few days after, or till the ufual evacuation recurs. Thefe, or an infufion of penny-royal, tanfey, baum, or camomile, may alfo be ufed with advantage when the difcharge is fcanty or fparing. Many other remedies are employed in order to remove obflru&ions or promote menftrua- tion, fuch as exercife, as dancing, riding, &c. the warm bath, the cold bath, electricity, and the like ; and nothing is more certain than that the fame end is often accomplifhed by very different and oppofite means. But, lince a remedy which in one inftance may prove mild, inoffenlive, or fuccefsful, will in another con- iiitution throw the patient into the mod violent nervous or hyfteric diforders, medicines of this kind ought to be given with great caution. Painful nievf ruation chiefly happens to wo- men of a delicate nervous habit, and to women of fafhion and high life. Thole of a low clafs, inured to exercife and labour, and Arangers to , thofe