Observations in midwifery, particularly on the different methods of assisting women in tedious and difficult labours. To which are added, observations on the principal disorders incident to women and children / By William Dease.

  • Dease, William, 1752?-1798.
Date:
MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]
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Credit: Observations in midwifery, particularly on the different methods of assisting women in tedious and difficult labours. To which are added, observations on the principal disorders incident to women and children / By William Dease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    } Sor ter, fo as to be computed!” at -fome gallons. THREE years before the prefent period fhe applied to me, previous to which time the had feveral of thofe abortions ; fhe looked extremely ‘well, and the apprehenfion of nt eapryae was her complaint; I obferved no- thing more particular, but fhe faid fhe always made lefs water and was bigger than might be expected at her period of geftation; for, to ufe her own expreffion, fhe was of opinion her children ufed to be drowned in this prodigious quantity of water. L-put her on,.a courfe of diuretics, - gentle. purgatives and ‘bitters, as I thought the relaxation of the uterine lymphatics the caufe of her complaint, and. this I profecuted with fo:much fuccefs that fhe went her .full . time, quantity of water was lefs than ufual. time I firft faw her, as when fhe