The Matron's Manual of Midwifery, and the Diseases of Women During Pregnancy and in Childbed: Being a Familiar and Practical Treatise, More Especially Intended for the Instruction of Females Themselves, but Adapted Also for Popular Use among Students and Practitioners of MedicineHollick, Frederick
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The Matron's Manual of Midwifery, and the Diseases of Women During Pregnancy and in Childbed: Being a Familiar and Practical Treatise, More Especially Intended for the Instruction of Females Themselves, but Adapted Also for Popular Use among Students and Practitioners of Medicine
Hollick, Frederick
Chloroform; Gynecology; Indian Territory; Midwifery; Obstetrics; Pregnancy
The treatment of all these affections should be the same as that
recommended for most of the previous derangements, particularly for
_Headache_, _Syncope_, and _Palpitation of the Heart_. If there be
nervous excitement merely, it must be calmed in the same way as
recommended in the articles referred to, and also in the last one on
sleeplessness. If the female be of a full habit, and there is evidently
a pressure of blood on the brain and nerves of the special senses, the
same means should be adopted to reduce the system, and draw the blood
to the extremities, that have already been described.
In such cases these sudden deprivations of sight and hearing sometimes
indicate the commencement of Convulsions, or Apoplexy, particularly
if they occur during labor, when every means should be resorted to
_instantly_ to relieve the pressure on the brain. If no simpler means
succeed in a reasonable time, it is the general custom to bleed freely
from the arm, and there is no question but this frequently removes the
difficulty at once, whatever objections may be made to the practice.
It is also proper to say that many eminent practitioners, who are not
advocates of the lancet in general, strenuously urge that it should be
used immediately if the sight or hearing suddenly disappear in this
way at any time. And I certainly have myself known these accidents
sometimes followed by a fit of Apoplexy, or Convulsions, and even
death. Such was the case with a friend of one of my patients. She
found one day, quite suddenly, that she could only see _half_ of any
thing she looked at, and at times it even disappeared altogether.
Nothing was done for her, and in about five hours after the first
attack she fell speechless and died before they could lift her upon
the bed. It will therefore be a necessary precaution, in all pregnant
females of a full habit, to attend rigidly to the advice that has been
given, because _simple_ means, used in time, and regularly, may prevent
the necessity of stronger ones altogether. In purely nervous cases of
this kind no apprehension whatever need be felt, and no such practice
as bleeding is required.
DISORDERED JUDGMENT, INCLINATIONS, AND PROPENSITIES.
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