On the methods of arresting haemorrhage per vaginam / by Edward Blake.

  • Blake, Edward T. (Edward Thomas), 1842-1905.
Date:
[1881]
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Credit: On the methods of arresting haemorrhage per vaginam / by Edward Blake. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ON THE METHODS OF ARRESTING HAEMOR- RHAGE PER YAGINAM. By Edward Blake, M.D. (Read June 22nd, 1881.) Mr. President and Gentlemen,— The methods of controlling vaginal hasmorrhages are chiefly of two kinds—medicinal and mechanical. With the names and properties of those substances which are credited by the different schools of medicine with the power to influence vaginal haematic discharges, you are all so well acquainted that it would be a mere formality for me to enumerate them here. With regard to the others, the more mechanical measures, in which I will include the employment of the correlated physical forces, there is still so much divergence of view, and such infinite variety of practice, that I feel we can scarcely spend our time to better effect than by rapidly passing in review the most approved and the most reasonable methods of procedure. Indeed, such an enormous number of women die annually, often when life and strength are just the most urgently needed, of either the immediate, or the remote effects of haemorrhage from some part of the genital tract, that no apology is needed for bringing before your notice a monograph on so vital a point. However much one may privately object to recognised methods and appliances for promptly dealing with this formidable foe to human life, however conservative ones views, however historic ones practice, it is indefensible not, at the least, to be well acquainted with those methods