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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    but I muft alfo acknowledge, that I have been more frequently difappointed ; .yet for fame rea- fon, not obvious or eafy to difcover, the patient wearied with the fruitlefs attempts of art, and de- ferring all rules, has another time efcaped the abortion, which I had in vain attempted to prevent. With refpecl to that ftate of the«^r«jitfelf,which -may be considered as the caufe of abortion, fhould there-have been any indication from the difcharge.s being irregular or profufe, if tjhey are of the fan- guineous kind; from their quality or degree, if of that kind which pafs under the general name of weaknefs, it is fir ft to be determined whether they are fymptoms indicating a certain ftate of general health, or any morbid difpofition of the uterus. Should they even be of the latter kind, it is often by application to the conftitution at large, that we have the power of making any material alteration in the ftate of the uterus. Something may however be done by local applications of various kinds ; but their activity muft not be fuch as to make too quick an alteration, by fuppreffing fuddenly any- kind of difcharge to which the part itfelf, or . the conftitution may have been long accuftomed. For it muft be obferved, that difagreeable as thefe -difcharges ■ re, they are often of fecondary ufe ; that isj if we fuppofe a certain ftate of the uterus, the