Practical essays on the management of pregnancy and labour, and on the inflammatory and febrile diseases of lying-in women / by John Clarke, M. D. physician to the General Lying-in Hospital in Store-Street, and to the Asylum for Female Orphans; and Teacher of Midwifery in London.

  • Clarke, John, 1761-1815.
Date:
1793
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Credit: Practical essays on the management of pregnancy and labour, and on the inflammatory and febrile diseases of lying-in women / by John Clarke, M. D. physician to the General Lying-in Hospital in Store-Street, and to the Asylum for Female Orphans; and Teacher of Midwifery in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wards are not an objedion to their ufe. Dry fomentations are not attended with the fame inconvenience, but they feldom relieve the pain fo much. The advantage of fuch a treatment will, it is acknowledged, be only negatively proved ; yet if it fhould be found, that in cafes, where the pulfc has been very frequent, its frequency is thereby dimini(hed, and the ftrength im- proved, we fliall have fufficient encourage- ment for purfuing it; and if in fome inftances it fhould be even unnecefl'arily tried, it does not appear that any difagreeable confequences can arife from it; on the other hand, fliould it fucceed in preventing the farther pro- grefs of fo fatal a diforder in fome cafes, it will amply compenfate us for having admi- niftered it, where it was not abfolutely re- quired, in others. After all which is contained in this Sec- tion refpedling the treatment of this dif- eafe of lying-in women, and after all which can be done, it will be found to be very fatal in a great many inftances. I have of- fered the refult of my experience, and I hope that thofe of my profeffion who have^ not