Observations on abortion : containing an account of the manner in which it is accomplished, the causes which produced it, and the method of preventing or treating it / by John Burns.

  • John Burns
Date:
1806
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Credit: Observations on abortion : containing an account of the manner in which it is accomplished, the causes which produced it, and the method of preventing or treating it / by John Burns. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    , t . f bark combined with valerian will be of service. Sometimes the mind is affected after abortion, although we may have had little discharge ; and the person becomes either melancholy, or, which is much oftener the case, mad, with great volu^ bility of tongue. This mania is, in ge- neral, sudden in its attack, and is often preceded by a violent fit of palpitation, or some other nervous affection. i It occasionally alternates with exter- nal pain or swelling of some of the joints ; and, though frequently a tedious complaint, is oftener got the better of than any other species of mania. The head, upon a general principle, ought to be shaved and blistered, and a free dis- charge kept up from it. The bowel#
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