Treatise on midwifery and the diseases of women and children with remedies / by A. I. Coffin.

  • Coffin, A. I., (Albert Isaiah), approximately 1790-1866.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Treatise on midwifery and the diseases of women and children with remedies / by A. I. Coffin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    the faculty usually recommend purging and cool- ing medicines, we say avoid both, particularly if the patient is pregnant, as it is more commonly present at this time, esi^ecially when there has been previously a luiscarriage. We would pre- scribe a strong tea of raspberry-leaves, to a pint of which half an ounce of pulverised gum-myrrh may be added; this to be used by way of injection, a small syriugeful being thrown up the passage morning and evening; at the same time it is good to AA-ash the parts with cold water. Make a de- coction as follows :—Horehound, tansey, clivers, cubebs, ground ivy, white pond lily-root, and raspberry-leaves, of each half an ounce, steeped in a quart of water, strain, and add half a tea- spoonful of cayenne pepper ] take a Aviueglassful three or four times a day. If the bowels are costive, half an ounce of mountain flax may be added to the above, but be careful not to purge the patient. BARRENNESS, OR STERILITY, Is probably the result of weakness from some of the foregoing causes ; and there are, no doubt, some cases where the elastic power is lost, or that action which is requisite in coition to enable the vessels to absorb the male semen ; the only remedy for that is to apply such medicines as will