Identifier: edinburghpractic05lond (find matches)
Title: The Edinburgh practice of physic, surgery, and midwifery : preceded by an abstract of the theory of medicine, and the nosology of Dr. Cullen and including upwards of six hundred authentic formulae from the books of St. Bartholmews, St. George's St. Thomas's, Guy's, and other hospitals in London, and from the lectures and writings of the most eminent public teachers ; with twenty quarto plates
Year: 1803 (1800s)
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Subjects: Clinical medicine Surgery Obstetrics Nosology Clinical Medicine General Surgery Obstetrics Disease
Publisher: London : Printed for G. kearsley, Fleet-Street Edinburgh : Bell & Bradfute Glasgow : Brash and Reid
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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edicine,very little can be done. Manual affiftance is feldom or never necefTary during the firftfive months of pregnancy: the exclufion of foetus and placentafhould very generally be trufted to nature. The medical treatment of abortion muft therefore be confi-dered with a view only to the prophylactic cure : and this againwill chiefly confift in a proper attention to diet. Mr. Lucas, of Leeds, has written fome Hints on the Manage-ment of Womenin certain Cafes of Pregnancy. In the courfe ofhis remarks, we find an account of his fuccefs in preventing abor-tion, even in very delicate women, liable to mifcarriage, by ob-ferving a fparing diet about the fame period of pregnancy atwhich they had formerly mifcarried. Although (fays Mr. Lucas) in moft fyftematic writers onmidwifery the fubject of abortion, when immediately threatened,is fully difcuflfed, yet few obfervations are to be met with refpeft-ing its prevention in futyre gejations. Thofe who are fubjeSt W ^Iboitioii PL . VI. VOL . V.
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vki», 1 JfirfZow JVs. Ritfircll Co 1 ARTIFICIAL ABORTION. 115 mifcarrlage are often unhealthy, and of delicate habits. As theoccafional caufes of abortion are feldom fuddenly fucceeded bythe fymptoms which immediately produce it, the preventivemeans are generally applied too late to be of material advantage.After a woman has been fubjeft to mifcarriage, unlefs when ithas happened from an external injury, there feems to be a pecu-liar difpofition to it about the fame period of the next pregnancy;and even from fuch flight caufes, that I have known it to appearto be produced from a fit of laughter ; while, on the contrary,thofe who have never mifcarried are fo little liable to abortion,that attempts to procure it have often rather endangered the lifeof the mother than accomplifhed the baneful defign. Some years ago, I was called to a patient who had takenabout a drachm of powdered cantharides, which brought on fre-quent vomiting, violent fpurious pains, a tenefmus, and immode-rate diure

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