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tway, aloetic pills muft be taken every evening. If it Putrifies, the patient dies, or 
falls into dangerous fevers. After delivery, the woman fhould be put into bed, and 
2 folded fheet put under her hips, in order to receive thelochia. Warm linen fhould 
be applied to the genital parts, to keep out the air, anda comprefs, dipped in warm 
wine, fhould be applied to the belly, but not too tight. If there are violent pains 
after delivery, they generally proceed from the after-birth’s being retained, or part of 
it; from blood clotted, or concreted, in the uterus; from hard labours from a defect 
in the flux of the lochia ; or from wind, efpecially if the woman has aoc been fwath- 
ed in a proper way. Inchis cafe, hot diluerts are proper, or.an infufion of camomile 
flowers, drunk as tea, or broths with carraway-feedss or wormwood, or thin orange- 
peel one ounce, ora bitter tinture in a proper infufion, taken hot. Aneunce ortwo 
of oil of {weet almonds, taken in a hot vehicle, is alfo excellent, 5 
If violent pains continue after delivery of the child, fo.as to givefufpicion of more 
being left behind, the greateft care and circumfpedtion fhould be ufed in examining 
the ftate of the uterus, and watching : an opportunity to-extraét them in thofe favour- 
able moments when the efforts of nature and the mother’s throws mutually confpire 
to promote the birth; and in which the utmoft fkill.and caution is requifite, or both 
mother and offspring are liable to perifh. Thele cafes, when they happen, are ge- 
nerally attended with the more difficulty from them ideale not knowing the ufual po- 
fition of a plural conception. _ T have theref re giv 
cafe, where three children were efaely delivered, whos withthe mother areall in afair 
way of doing weil. e 
The moft fatal diforder pa ccpny upon delta is the plas © or child-bed 
fever; and there is not-any difeafe that requires to be d with more {kill and 
attention than this$ confequently the beft affiftance ought always to be obtained - 
foon as poffible. In women of plethoric conftitutions, bleeding will generally 
ht h er to be ufed with caution, and.not to be 
proper at the beginning ; ; it ought howev: tgs on ae se wep 
repeated unlefs where the figns of infamm ion 
Riis: to apply a blifter to the region of the womb. eee. apie - 
cold ft, proper means fhould be ufed to abate its violence, and shorts 
For this purpofe the patient Cee 
may take now and dens a 
tremities, as heated bricks, 
like, may alfo be ufed with ad 
1 cup i “white-wine-whey.; 3 warm - 
bottles or bladders filled with warm water, and fuche, a 
vantage. Emollient clyfters of milk ant) . 
h the ee ie 
of chicken water, ought-to be frequently adminiftered throug 
from the 4 
vi al b promotmg a difcharge 
difeafe. Thefe prove beneficial by ig f % 
alfo.by.aéting as a kindly fomentatio of ey 
however is requifite in giving them, on aon of the tendernefs of tht a 
$l. 
atient may drink freely of warm dileting liquors, and, if low, #2, 
