A compend of domestic midwifery : for the use of female practitioners, being an appendix to Buchan's Domestic medicine.

  • Shecut, John L. E. W. (John Linnaeus Edward Whitridge), 1770-1836.
Date:
1815
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    uterine vessels, an increased motion, or a great thinness of tbe bioodjj •nd most frequently happens to women about forty-five or fifty, and who indulge in ardent spirits.—A continuance of this disor- der occasions a loss of strength and appetite, a pale complexion, cachexy, swellings in the feet and ancles, dropsies, and sometimes consumptions— To restrain the flux the Patient should be kept quiet and easy both in body and mind. If it be very violent, she ought to lie in bed with her head very low, to live upon a cool and slender diet, and to drink freely of a decoction of Comfrey-roots with Port Wine. Bleed- ing is sometimes necessary, by way of revulsion, if the strength of the Patient will allow of it. The following powder will be found serviceable in restraining the flax. Take two drachms of alum and one of Jafian earth, reduce them separately to a fine fiowdery then mix them uniformily and divide the whole into eight or nine doses, one of which to be taken three times a day. Half a drachm of the Tinc- ture of Peruvian Bark may also be taken four or five times a day with ten or fifteen drops of the Elixir Viiriol to each dose. Lauda- nHwitakv-nin doses of ten drops four or five times a day has its use, provided the habit be not very costive—In warm weather the cold bath will be of considerable servicei indeed in desperate cases and in the depth of winter, cold applications of cloths seven or eight double, wrung out of vinegar and water, have been successfully used to the lower abdomen, and ligatures made pretty tight above the knees have contributed greatly to check this disorder.—One of the strongest and most effectual astringents we know of in this case, is the Acetite oj Lead commonly called sugar of leao; this in small doses of from three to five grains taken at proper intervals, will sel- dom fail to stop this flux, but we would advise the patient, whenever it is practicable, previous to its indiscriminate use, to consult a Phy» sician. SECTION 4. Of the Fluor Albus or Whites* This uterine Fluor is a copious and continual flux of a matter from the vagina uteri after the manner of the Menses, or rather a gonorrficea viyulenta. It is supposed to proceed from a relaxa- tion of the glands of the womb and vagina which ooze out a white viscous matter, too plentifully. It is sometimes -caused by falls, sprains in the back, or an obstruction of the Menses. It may also be the effect of the venereal disease, which though cured, yet leaves the glands of the uterus and vagina in the relaxed state just mentioned. Symptoms.—Full grown women as well as such as are young are subject to this, distemper. The quantity of the running increases upon violent exercise, straining, &c. When the disease is moderate