Identifier: feminologyguidef00dres (find matches)
Title: Feminology; a guide for womankind, giving in detail instructions as to motherhood, maidenhood, and the nursery
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Dressler, Florence
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Publisher: Chicago, C. L. Dressler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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REMOVAL OF PLACENTA.—(A Common Practice.) CONFINEMENT. 197 It should not be hurried. By no manner of means shouldit be expelled by action of drugs, nor the cord be pulled todraw the placenta, unless it be loose, nor a hand insertedto scrape it from the uterine walls. If the placenta isadherent, unless there be flooding, wait natures time. Thepatient will be better for it. It has been known to beretained thirty-six to forty-eight hours. Forcibly removingit is fraught with danger to the patient. Warm injectionsused in the bowels will prove helpful. Dr. Stockham recom-mends an injection of cold water into the vein of the cord,in case of hemorrhage, which, she says, will, in many cases,remove a retained placenta. After being expelled with the membranes, it should beburned or buried. Never in any instance should it be throwninto a privy vault, as it putrefies rapidly, and will give riseto sickness. Fire consumes impurity, and the earth absorbsand scatters it. A flow of blood accompanies

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