On the diseases of females, a treatise illustrating their symptoms, causes, varieties, and treatment, including the diseases and management of pregnancy and lying-in women. Designed as a companion to the author's "Modern domestic medicine." Containing also an appendix on the proper principles of the treatment of epilepsy, an account of the symptoms and treatment of diseases of the heart and a medical glossary / By Thomas J. Graham.

  • Graham, Thomas John, 1795?-1876.
Date:
1837
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Credit: On the diseases of females, a treatise illustrating their symptoms, causes, varieties, and treatment, including the diseases and management of pregnancy and lying-in women. Designed as a companion to the author's "Modern domestic medicine." Containing also an appendix on the proper principles of the treatment of epilepsy, an account of the symptoms and treatment of diseases of the heart and a medical glossary / By Thomas J. Graham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PART II. DISEASES OF PREGNANT WOMEN. PAGE Signs of Pregnancy 167 Suppression of Menses 167 Nausea, Vomiting, and Heartburn, their proper Treatment .... 169 Salivation, its Treatment, and a Valuable Case of 172 Formation of Milk 173 Curious Case of 173 The only certain mark of Pregnancy 174) Quickening 174) Joanna Southcote's case of imposition 175 Diseases of Pregnancy 175 Costiveness—Piles—Diarrhoea—Retention of Urine—Retrover- sion of the Womb—Swelling of the Legs—Tooth-ache— Cough, 8fc.—their Treatment - * 175—180 Several instructive Cases 178, 179 Miscarriage 181 not usually attended with danger.... 182 its Causes 181 its Symptoms and approach 182, 183 its Treatment 184—192 Cases of 187, 190 Treatment of Women subject to Miscarriage 193 Flooding before Labour 194 Management of Women in Labour 196 Natural Labours 201 Signs and Stages of Labour 199—201 Encouragements to patience 204 The proper mode of proceeding on the part of the Midwife 200 Attention due to the Child 205 Management of Women after Delivery 212 Danger of getting up immediately after delivery 209 An excellent bandage 202 Give a purge the third day after delivery ...» 226 After-pains # 213 Lochial Discharge 214 Proper Time of Rising from Bed 215 No woman should rise before the end of the third or fourth day 216 Difficulty of passing water at this time to be carefully attended to 216