A synopsis of the various kinds of difficult parturition, with practical remarks on the management of labours / By Samuel Merriman.

  • Merriman, Samuel, 1771-1852.
Date:
1814
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Credit: A synopsis of the various kinds of difficult parturition, with practical remarks on the management of labours / By Samuel Merriman. 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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    Spurious pains are to be relieved, by aperients, if arising from costiveness or indigestion; by absorbents, if from superabundant acidity in the intestines; by opiates, if from spasm or fatigue; by bleeding, if from inflammation or fever. True paius may be known by their recurring at reguliar intervals,; by affecting the back and shooting round to the thighs; by producing a sensible opening or dila- tation of the OS uteri during each pain ; by protruding the membranes, like a bladder filled with water, through the OS uteri. True pains are of two kinds, 1. Grinding, rending, cutting painsj when the os uteri tirst begins to open. 2. Bearing or forcing pains, after the os internum is somewhat opened, and the bag of waters, or the head of the child,