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A general treatise of midwifery ... illustrated with upwards of four hundred curious observations and reflexions concerning that art / Written originally in French by La Motte ... And translated into English by Thomas Tomkyns, surgeon.

  • Mauquest de La Motte, Guillaume, 1655-1737.
Date:
1746
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Credit: A general treatise of midwifery ... illustrated with upwards of four hundred curious observations and reflexions concerning that art / Written originally in French by La Motte ... And translated into English by Thomas Tomkyns, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    When the fpirits overcome this obftru&ion, they rufh into fome parts in too great an abun¬ dance, and irritate them to fhch a degree, as to bring; on convulfions. The fenfes are fometimes quite gone, and the pulfe is fo weak and languishing, that life feems in danger ; however, I never law any one die in thefe fits, though I have feen people labour under them to the g re a ted excels. The remedies which have proved beneficial to me in thefe cafes, are a ftrong volatile fpirit of fa! ar maniac, the Jal. fuccin. the confetti. hyacinth. glyflers with whey, motherwort, rue, and a few grains of camphire and caftor. Observation CCCXCIV. A lady whom I had delivered the fixth of March i/Oi, merely by a lady of her acquaintance com¬ ing juft as far as her chamber door with a nofegay of jonquils and violets, was affiidted with the va¬ pours the whole night, and with the head-ach for three days after. I ordered her nothing elfe but gentle glyfters, by which means fine was cured. Observation CCCXCV*. A lady fix days after I had delivered her, having a mind to clean herfelf, took a cap out of a cheft of drawers, in which was only one grain of mufk, and Hie was imeediately ftruck with the head-ach. I was fetched, and having found out the caufe, I made her fhift her cap and every thing about her, fmell to a little fpirit offalarmoniac, and take a fim- ple glyfter. The head-ach leffened in the night, and was quite gone by the next morning. Os s E R-