An account of some of the most important diseases peculiar to women / by Robert Gooch.

  • Gooch, Robert, 1784-1830.
Date:
1829
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Credit: An account of some of the most important diseases peculiar to women / by Robert Gooch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    seems to have been this: First, at the com- mencement of the disease, by a full bleeding from the arm, and if the effect of it was bene- ficial, by another bleeding after a few hours; if the constitution of the patient was feeble, he preferred cupping, or leeches to the abdomen. Next, by an emetic of ipecacuanha or tartarized antimony, so as to procure full vomiting, and after this had subsided, if the disease was not extinguished, the emetic was to be repeated; These emetics, generally, produced not only vomiting, but sweating and purging; if not, sulphate of magnesia dissolved in thin gruel was given every few hours, till it procured se- veral stools. Having succeeded in procuring these evacuations, he gave a full opiate. The rest of the treatment consisted in a saline aperient every morning, and an opiate every night. Puerperal fever was epidemic in Aberdeen more than two years, between 1789 and 1792, and was described by Dr. Gordon, a physician of that place. He states, that the essential remedy was blood-letting, employed early and freely; that when he took ten or twelve ounces away, the patient generally died, but whefi he took twenty-four ounces away at once, and during the Jirst sir hours of the disease, the patient conunonly