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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    applied to the belly (the bladder at the time being in a diflended ftate) has given imme- diate pain to the woman; and by prefling the fundus uteri downwards and backwards, at a time when the os uteri was turned up- wards, has occafioned a fuppreflion of urine. —Such cafes, however, are comparatively rare, neverthelefs they do fometimes happen : yet I am fully perfuaded that no external vio- lence with an empty bladder can ever produce that alteration of the fituation of the uterus ■which is the caufe of a fuppreffion of urine; therefore, in every inftance we muft confider the fulnefs of the bladder at leaft the pre- difpofing, and commonly the occafional caufe. Befides the fuppreffion of urine occafioned by this difeafe, there are other fymptoms, •which, though not equally dangerous, flill require to be attended to. If the fuppreffioii of urine has continued for fome time, confi- derable fever will be excited, and fometimes inflammation of the external furface of the bladder. If, therefore, the patient (hould complain of much pain near that part, or if the pulfe Ihould be frequent and ftrong, with a dry and hot ikin, thirft, and other fymptoms of fever, fome blood may be taken away with conliderable