An essay on uterine hemorrhages depending on pregnancy and parturition / by Thomas Denman, M. D. licentiate in midwifery, of the College of Physicians.

  • Denman, Thomas, 1733-1815.
Date:
1786
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Credit: An essay on uterine hemorrhages depending on pregnancy and parturition / by Thomas Denman, M. D. licentiate in midwifery, of the College of Physicians. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fo that there is fome reafon for believing that women in a ftate of nature would feldom fuffcr abortion. According to the opinions neverthelefs of many fyftematic writers on this fubjecl, every aclion in common life has been afTigned as the caufe of abortion ; and in general that, about which ibe patient was employed, when the firft fymptom appeared, is fixed upon as the particular caufe, though probably fhe was4 before in fuch a flate, that abortion was inevitable. But if this opinion of abortion be juft, then the event ought rather to be imputed to fome previous indifpofition, or to the excefs of fuch actions. Greater practical bene- fit will be obtained, if we feek for the caufes of abortion in the general infirmity of the conftitution, or in fome particular ftate of the uterus, or its ap, pendages. As far as the conftitution may be alter-* ed, by the reduction of the general ftrength, by plethora, or febrile difpolition, fo as to be unable to perform its functions, or to perform them with propriety and regularity, we may efteem every caufe capable of producing fuch a ftate, as a pri- mary caufe of abortion. But perhaps it does not often happen, that fimpie weaknefs is a caufe of abortion; for women who prove with child, in very weak and reduced ftates of the body, parti- cularly in confumptions, in whom there is a great aptitude to conceive, have, of all women the leaft