Dr. Conquest's outlines of midwifery : intended as a text-book for students, and a book of reference for junior practitioners.

  • Conquest, Dr.
Date:
1854
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    under the bed-clothes for a month; and, if the hori- zontal posture of the body be preserved, she may be on the outside of the bed, or on a sofa, the day after delivery. In England, lying-in women are kept too long in bed, and sit up too early. OF THE LOCHIA. The lochial discharge (or cleansings, as it is called by nurses) is a sanguineous discharge from the vessels of the uterus, which, being mixed with de- tached and decomposed filaments of the tunica decldua uteri, continues to flow from the passages from five to thirty days after parturition. At first it is decidedly sanious and coagulates, but in a few days it becomes of a much paler and brown- ish, or of a dirty green hue, so as to acquire among women the term of green waters. The quantity of this discharge varies very much m different women; in some being extremely scanty, especially in those who have lost much blood by ute- rine hemorrhage, whilst in others the secretion is so profuse as to require medical treatment. When the discharge is excessive, it is not untre- Quently h^eraorrhagic, constituting the manorrhagza locMalis of authors, and may generally be traced to sitting up prematurely ; or to improper diet and re- .imen, such as high-seasoned food and fermented liauors; or keeping the lying-in room at a lugh tem- leratul; For the removal of this local affection and, the consecutive constitutional derangement, it be- comes necessary to employ cool air; absolute qmetude