A synopsis of the various kinds of difficult parturition : with practical remarks on the management of labours / ... With notes and additions, by Thomas C. James.

  • Merriman, Samuel, 1771-1852.
Date:
1816
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Credit: A synopsis of the various kinds of difficult parturition : with practical remarks on the management of labours / ... With notes and additions, by Thomas C. James. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ness in the parts, this may probably be a useful practice. Rueff, who published in 1554, recom- mends to introduce a composition of oil and the whites of eggs. In cases of great rigidity, particularly if there be any tendency to inflammation, the abstraction of blood is frequently beneficial. This practice has been carried to a great extent in America, where women have been bled to the amount of 20, 30, 40, 50 or more ounces at a time, for the purpose of producing general relaxation, and consequently a more speedy dilatation of the os uteri and the external organs. But it may be doubted whether patients in general would recover well after so great a loss of blood. An accoucheur at Paris lately professed to teach a secret, by which all women, even the most deformed, might be easily delivered. His method was to give an emetic to the parturient woman, and he expected that the violent strain-