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A general treatise of midwifery ... illustrated with upwards of four hundred curious observations and reflexions concerning that art / Written originally in French by La Motte ... And translated into English by Thomas Tomkyns, surgeon.

  • Mauquest de La Motte, Guillaume, 1655-1737.
Date:
1746
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Credit: A general treatise of midwifery ... illustrated with upwards of four hundred curious observations and reflexions concerning that art / Written originally in French by La Motte ... And translated into English by Thomas Tomkyns, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are very different from thefe, in thofe the belly is hard, tenfe and painful, and cannot bear to be touched, thefe complaints are all wanting here ; in thofe the pain is continual, and the lochia are quite or almoft flopped ; here the pain is by fits, and the lochia come down plentifully, efpecially imme- diaredy after the pain, which is not the cafe in the cholick. There is no occafion to allow a particular chap¬ ter to the cholick ; it is fufficient to fay, that it is relieved by glyflers and emollient fomentations, or in their flead with folded napkins dipt in warm milk, and applied to the belly. An ounce of oil of fweet almonds with a fpoonful of fyrop of maiden¬ hair, is a very good remedy. CHAP. XVI. Of convulfionSy vapours^ a72d the haemorrhoids, CONVULSIONS after delivery are occafioned fometimes by too great a lofs of blood, and fometimes by the flopping of the lochia ; in the firfl cafe, all we can do is to repair the lois of the fluid by flrong nouriihing broths, adminiflered in fmall quantities and often repeated, together with gentle glyflers: When they proceed from the other caufe, the method of cure prefcribed for that dif- order mufl be followed. I had two women at Cherbourg that were always fubjedl to convulfions after delivery^ on account of exceffive floodings. I advifed them, to prevent this misfortune, to bleed as foon as they found them- felves breeding, and to repeat it feveral times dur¬ ing their pregnancy, as alfo to take a gentle purge once a month, for the three firfl months: One was cured by this method, the other never had any more children. Some