Observations on diseases of the uterus, in which are included remarks on moles, polypi, and prolapsus : with the characteristics ... marks of those diseases which ... are sometimes mistaken for pregnancy / [George Rees].

  • Rees, George, 1776?-1846.
Date:
[between 1800 and 1809?]
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Credit: Observations on diseases of the uterus, in which are included remarks on moles, polypi, and prolapsus : with the characteristics ... marks of those diseases which ... are sometimes mistaken for pregnancy / [George Rees]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dent’s fufferings may be much curtailed by prudent affiftance in detaching that from which nature is not fully able to extricate herfelf: and here it will not be neceflary to wait for <0 that dilatation of parts requisite for a fetus to pafs. Therefore when a perfon who from an increafe of bulk feems feveral months advanced with child, is feized with pains fimilar to la- bour, accompanied with a coloured difcharge from the vagina, thefe having continued fome time without relief, it will be advifeable to propofe an examination; and if we difcover the caufe to be what is now under confidera- ' — • ' * * * - >■ » .. T .t - v*' i 7 .. . * ^ . . X . „ t tion, we fhould ufe gradual efforts to remove it, which if not too powerful, will not be productive of haemorrhage. a ; * ' • > . ' The Cure. The cure of Dropfy of the Uterus muft confift, as in other cafes, in evacuating the water, and preventing its return. In that fpecies which I have mentioned as a general dropfy of the part, the ufe of diuretic medi- cines will prove beneficial ; purgatives are not proper, as determining more fluids to T 2 thefe