Homoeopathic manual of obstetrics, or, A treatise on the aid the art of midwifery may derive from homoeopathy / by C. Croserio ; from the French by M. Coté.

  • Croserio, C. (Camille), 1786-1855.
Date:
1853
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    as metrorrhagia and abortion; however, the contrary case happens every day. To this we may reply that wise nature is stronger to preserve than our passions to destroy; so that, as it is not reasonable to depend entirely upon nature, when one can aid her by precautions, we counsel parents, desirous of having children, to remain separated from the time that they presume pregnancy to exist, especially when the woman is of a nervous and im- pressionable temperament, or subject to leucorrhea, or to too abundant and long-continued or too frequent returns of the menses. DISEASES OF PKEGNANT WOMEN. We comprise under this denomination all the affec- tions which result from the particular state of the uterus during gestation up to the moment of labor. The uterus, which was, so to speak, but an impercep- tible point in the organization of the woman, acquires, after conception, an altogether new life, and takes such a development in all its tissues and in its vital action, that it attracts, as it were, the whole system into its sphere and into dependence upon it. In a normal state, however, all this immense revolution should take place in the woman without uneasiness and without need of help from art; often, however, the change in the state of the uterus does not take place without considerable suffering in this viscus, or in the organs which have the most sympathy with it; such as the digestive, respi- ratory, circulatory, and cerebro-spinal. From the first weeks, even from the first days of preg- nancy, the woman experiences uneasiness from the af- flux of blood to the uterus, and the resistance opposed by the fibers of this organ to the development necessary