A report of the practice of midwifery, at the Westminster General Dispensary, during 1818 ; including new classifications of labours, abortions, female complaints, and the diseases of children; with computations on the mortality among lying-in women, and children; and the probabilities of abortion taking place at different periods of pregnancy, &c., &c., with select cases and formulae / By Augustus Bozzi Granville.

  • Granville, A. B. (Augustus Bozzi), 1783-1872.
Date:
1819
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Credit: A report of the practice of midwifery, at the Westminster General Dispensary, during 1818 ; including new classifications of labours, abortions, female complaints, and the diseases of children; with computations on the mortality among lying-in women, and children; and the probabilities of abortion taking place at different periods of pregnancy, &c., &c., with select cases and formulae / By Augustus Bozzi Granville. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    ordered leeches to the temples, and took blood from her arm. Calomel, with the cathartic ex- tract, was ordered at the same time ; and a com- posing draught (8) to be taken occasionally. These measures had the effect of calming her for the night; but all the distressing symptoms of the affection of the brain returned^ even more violent, the next day; from which period up to the 24th thej continued with more or less inten- sity, and she ultimately expired in one of the attacks, after repeated and ineffectual attempts on the part of her friends to make her swallow either medicines or food. No permission having been granted to examine her after death, the imme- diate cause of her dissolution could not be well determined. Although I am aware that puer- peral convulsions are known to be generally fatal to the lying-in woman; and in that respect, nothing uncommon could be found in the present case : still the labour had been so quickly and favourably terminated, and at the end of eleven days, the patient appeared to be getting so much better, that the sudden change which soon afterwards put an end to her existence, must