Practical essays on the management of pregnancy and labour; and on the inflammatory and febrile diseases of lying-in women / By John Clarke.

  • Clarke, John, 1761-1815.
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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    root, with a grain of opium, may be given once in three or four hours. The decodtum cornu cervi may be ufed for common drink, and occafionally the miftura cretacea, with fome aromatic tindture, may be taken. If with diarrhoea there fhould be much tenef- mus, glyfters with opium will be neceflary, but not otherwife. Where there is much Durg-ing, emollient glyfters may be thrown up with advantage once or twice in twenty-four hours; they will wafh away any impurities within their reach, and fometimes bring away with them any air in the lower part of the bowels, which is often very diftreffing to the patient. Befides this general outline of the treat¬ ment proper to be purfued, cataplafms ap¬ plied to the legs and feet are ufeful on the principle formerly ftated, and are, I think, to be preferred to blifters; cataplafms are only intended to be recommended as rubefacients, not as veficatories. Anodyne fomentations to the belly, when there is much pain, will be found at leaft to relieve for a time, though I have often doubted whether their relaxant effedts after¬ wards