[An essay on the uterine haemorrhage] / [William Saunders].

  • William Saunders
Date:
[1789?]
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Credit: [An essay on the uterine haemorrhage] / [William Saunders]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The treatment of floodings that come on before the Uterus has acquired any conhderable fize mtift be very obvious, and the confequences of them at that early period of pregnancy are feldom to be dreaded, as if the patient lofe blood from the arm, be kept cool, and in an horizontal poflure, and fuch mild, aflrin- gent, and anodyne medicines be adminif- tered to her as have been found, by experi- ence, to reflrain difcharges of blood, they will very frequently flop entirely, and the woman go on to her full time: and if this fhould not be the cafe, but the Hemor- rhage fhould flill increafe, it will feldom increafe to a degree that will endanger the life of the mother, without the fmall foetus and fecundines being feparated and thrown off by it, after which the Uterus will foon contract, and thereby clofing the mouths of the bleeding velfels, the difeharge will gradually diminifh till it be entirely flopped: the furgeon has, there- fore, in thefe cafes, nothing manual to do;
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