On the prevention and treatment of post-partum hemorrhage / by Thomas More Madden.

Date:
1882
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Credit: On the prevention and treatment of post-partum hemorrhage / by Thomas More Madden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    [Reprinted from The American Journal op OF POST-PARTUM HEMOPiPiHAGE. BY THOMAS MORE MADDEN, M.D., M.R.EA., Obstetric Physician Mater Misericordia Hospital; Physician to the Hospital for Sick Children. Ex-Assistant Physician Dublin Lying-in Hospitai; Formerly Examiner in Midwifery in Queen's University in Ireland, etc. NoTwiTHSTiVHDHsro tlic progposs of modern obstetric science, the accident which forms the subject of this communication remains one of the most frequent complications of delivery. Hence, the advantage of our once again discussing the preven- tion and treatment of flooding, and, by the interchange and record of our individual experiences, assist in freeing midwifery practitioners from the ever-present dread of witnessing death from hemorrhage after childbirtli. Under ordinary circumstances and with ordinary care in the management of labor, death from flooding should be an ex- tremely rare accident. Thus, during a tolerably long practice