A treatise on clinical medicine, being a compendious and systematic introduction to practice, as contained in the memoranda of I. R. Bischoff / From the German, by Joseph Cope.

  • Bischoff, Ignaz Rudolph, Edler von Altenstern, 1784-1850
Date:
1827
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    about the contraction of the womb by gentle fric- tion and pressure of the abdomen. But if urged to employ it, we still find that it does not succeed, then injections of cold Avater, alone, or with alum dissolved in it, or mixed with a little vinegar, or plugs of linen steeped therein and introduced into the vagina, are to be employed ; and lastly, when all these fail, and the complete inability of the uterus to contract is the cause, the introduction of the hand, first bathed in cold vinegar and water, is the last resource of our art. Should, however, the above described state of exhaustion be attended with coldness of the body, fainting, &c., then ex- ternal exciting remedies, as aromatic fomentations to the abdomen, spirituous embrocations with aether. Spirit. Saponis*; Spt. camphorat; et Spt. aromaticusf are to be used, by which, and the inward use of similar remedies, the almost extin- guished life is often fortunately preserved. H.EMORRHAGIA UTERI IN GRAVIDA. A maid-servant, twenty-eight years old, four months gone with child, after a violent fright, was seized with spasmodic pains in the loins and thighs ; she at the same time had an appearance of blood from the vagina. On the following day the pains were extremely violent, and there ap- peared some clots of blood ; on the third day, by the use of some remedy the pains were diminished, but the haemorrhage continued, for which she came on the 23d of January, (the tenth day of * R Sap. veil, gvj; Pot. siibcarb. jj; Alcobolis thiss. Aq. lavaiid. ttiss. digere et filtra. + R Melissa; recent, tbij; Cort. Citri. recent. No. x ; Rad. Angelica; C. Cinn. iiii ^iij ; Coriand. S. Jvj ; Alcohol, ttixj. Aqua;, pur. tbvj; inacera et distillent in Balneo Aqua; Ibx.