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or with an infusion of chamomile flowers, witch 



eaves, or a df coction of oak bark. This 

 cli^•chari5e is in some women very trifling, and 

 may even stop very soon without any bitd eflect. 

 But when it is suddenly checked by exposure to 

 cold, or other cau-e*, most jjainful consequences 

 may ftdlo.v, such as swelling of the belly, great 

 pain thrtiUj^hout the system, and fever. In such 

 cases the evacuation should he promoted by a 

 course of medicine, by setting in a tub of warm 

 water, or by the application of warm fomenta- 

 tions to the pans, and the exliibition of some 

 mild laxative medicine, and afterwards produce 

 a perspiration by a do«,e of com,;osiii()n powders. 

 I here wish to impress upon the minds of my read- 

 ers, aud these inexperienced in the delivery of 

 a wuuian in ldbi»r, liie great necessity of being 

 extremely caihuons in the delivery of the after- 

 birth, as rash and iil-directed endeavors, may 

 proiluce an inversion of tiie womb, and very I're- 

 fluently the deatlj 



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of ihe jjatit-nt. 1 

 degrees of the inversion of the womb, namely, 

 the parlid and fhe complete. Tne 'first, which 

 is the mcfPe common one, appears in the shape of 

 a swelling as large as a child's head, protruding 

 without the paftsagf-s immediately afier the expijl- 

 sionoftlie after-birih, aqcomprtnied with violent 

 forcing an I bearing .lown piius, uid followed by 

 flooding, faiutiugs, ?uid muiy fruitless attempts 

 of mikiii ' water. This arises from a nart. mnra 



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