A treatise on the management of pregnant and lying-in women ... / by Charles White.

  • White, Charles, 1728-1813.
Date:
MDCCLXXXV [1785]
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Credit: A treatise on the management of pregnant and lying-in women ... / by Charles White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    examining the parts with the greateft attention, I found that her complaints were confined to the region of the uterus and bladder; and that the {welling was perfectly circumf{cribed ; and that neither. the pain, the fwelling, nor the forenefs, extended beyond the half way from the pubis to the navel; nor. was there at that time any reafon to apprehend, either from the nature of the fymp- toms, or the touch, ‘that there was any inflammation, or other diforder, el- ther in the ftomach, omentum, or in- teftines, if we except a gentle forenefs with which it was affected . THE gentleman who was employed for her, introduced 4 catheter into her bladder, that he might. difcover whether it was diftended with water; but it did not contain above three or four {poon- fuls. Upon prefling the catheter a- gainft the fundus of the bladder, fhe complained that here was the feat of | “Ey 6° her