The married woman's private medical companion : $b embracing the treatment of menstruation, or monthly turns, during their stoppage, irregularity, or entire suppression. Pregnancy, and how it may be determined; with the treatment of its various diseases. Discovery to prevent pregnancy; its great and important necessity where malformation or inability exists to give birth. To prevent miscarriage or abortion. When proper and necessary to effect miscarriage. When attended with entire safety. CausesMauriceau, A. M.
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The married woman's private medical companion : $b embracing the treatment of menstruation, or monthly turns, during their stoppage, irregularity, or entire suppression. Pregnancy, and how it may be determined; with the treatment of its various diseases. Discovery to prevent pregnancy; its great and important necessity where malformation or inability exists to give birth. To prevent miscarriage or abortion. When proper and necessary to effect miscarriage. When attended with entire safety. Causes
Mauriceau, A. M.
Abortion; Pregnancy; Women -- Health and hygiene
It will be prudent, when this disease occurs as an early symptom of
pregnancy, not to check the discharge suddenly, lest miscarriage be the
consequence; but it may be moderated by injections of water, with the
addition of a little vinegar, or an infusion of green tea. Neither
should the discharge be suddenly suppressed when it has been of long
standing, and acquired a considerable degree of acrimony, with an
offensive smell. For if it be unseasonably checked, the belly swells,
and a train of the most disagreeable symptoms occurs. In such cases,
soap suds, or an infusion of chamomile flowers or hops, should be
frequently thrown up the vagina; and, as soon as the blood is freed of
its impurities, by suitable medicines, and has recovered, in some
measure, its soft and balmy quality of which it has been deprived, the
astringent injections may be employed with perfect safety.
The application of a blister to the sacrum, has, in some obstinate
cases, been attended with advantage.
When the fluor albus proceeds from worms, purgatives and bitter clysters
are the proper remedies.
Pain in the back and loins is often mitigated by the application of a
large adhesive or strengthening plaster, and by avoiding a standing
posture of long continuance, much walking, dancing, or any other violent
exertion.
Women should carefully avoid all the remote causes of the disease: they
should pay diligent attention to cleanliness, by washing the parts
frequently with cold water; and when there are excoriations, milk and
water, or lead water, may be employed as a wash.
_Regimen._
The diet should be light, cordial, and nourishing, consisting of
isinglass dissolved in milk by boiling it, jellies, custards, rice,
milk, soft-boiled eggs, gelatinous broths, and light meats, together
with a prudent use of genuine wine, particularly claret or port.
Women, affected with this disease, should by no means indulge in the use
of tea and other warm slops of a relaxing nature; but should lie on a
mattress in preference to a feather bed; and they should rise early, and
take such daily exercise as their strength will admit, particularly on
horseback. When there is much languor, with chilliness, friction with
the flesh-brush, and wearing flannel next the skin, must not be omitted.
FALLING DOWN OF THE WOMB.
This is a much more common complaint than the former, and takes place in
women of every age, and every rank. As its name implies, it consists of
change in the situation of the womb, by which that organ lies much lower
than it ought to do. In some cases it absolutely protrudes entirely
without the parts. The slightest degrees are styled bearing down; and
the more violent ones descent or falling down of the womb.
In general, the first symptom of this complaint is an uneasy sensation
in the lower part of the back while standing or walking, with now and
then a kind of pressure and bearing down.
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