The midwife's practical directory, or woman's confidential friend, comprising extensive remarks on the various casualties, and forms of disease, preceding, attending and following the period of gestation : with an appendix, the whole designed for the special use of the botanic friends in the United States / by Thomas Hersey.

  • Hersey, Thomas.
Date:
1836
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Credit: The midwife's practical directory, or woman's confidential friend, comprising extensive remarks on the various casualties, and forms of disease, preceding, attending and following the period of gestation : with an appendix, the whole designed for the special use of the botanic friends in the United States / by Thomas Hersey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dyspeptic ; and the languid tone of the stomach must be roused, and thus a salutary influence may be extended to the whole system. More minute instruction is scarcely necessary to one who shall carefully attend to the sequel of this work. We will just remark, that the Thomsonian powders, called by way of distinction, Woman's Friend, to be used in the way directed, under the recipe for making that composition, will be found parti- cularly serviceable. 51. Here let it be distinctly noticed, that the same remedies that have been found successful in restraining an excessive menstruation, have been found serviceable for removing obstructions and administering relief, when these discharges have been deficient in quantity or defective in quality. 52. The most usual symptoms attending these difficulties, are pains in the head, back, and loins; costiveness, indigestion, hysteric affections, palpi- tations at the heart, flatulence, emaciation^ paleness of countenance and faded lips ; the eyes lose much of their wonted lustre and expression, a livid, blue, semi-lunar circle appears about them; a general lassitude prevails ; small exertions fatigue ; drop- sical swellings of the feet, and general derange- ment of the more important functions of the visce-