A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . hat the placenta was retained;still at my first visit I removed it, and the patient had nomore hemorrhage and rapidly recovered. So the great lengthof time a hemorrhage has continued must not prevent usfrom seeking for a retained placenta, if the hemorrhage datesfrom the time of the miscarriage. • To remove a placenta retained after a miscarriage, Ipass within the uterus an ordinary uterine sound considerablycurved, and gently sweep it around the cavity of the uterus,and by this means detach that por
A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . hat the placenta was retained;still at my first visit I removed it, and the patient had nomore hemorrhage and rapidly recovered. So the great lengthof time a hemorrhage has continued must not prevent usfrom seeking for a retained placenta, if the hemorrhage datesfrom the time of the miscarriage. • To remove a placenta retained after a miscarriage, Ipass within the uterus an ordinary uterine sound considerablycurved, and gently sweep it around the cavity of the uterus,and by this means detach that portion of the placenta whichis adherent—very often uterine contractions are induced bythis procedure. If so, very well; if they are not, I wouldgive about twenty drops of Flu. Ext. of Ergot in a little warm 208 - EATON ON DISEASES OF WOMEN. brandy and water, every twenty minutes till contractionsensued, or until three or four doses have been given; some-times the long, slender placenta forceps, or the uterine polypiforceps, can be introduced, and greatly aid us in extractingthe Fig. No. 20—Greexhalghs Forceps. In some cases when the blood flows freely from thevagina, following the expulsion of a foetus, it may be bestto at once tampon the vagina and allow the blood to fill theuterus, which, being of small size, would not endanger life,and which, by its presence, may stimulate uterine contractionsof so strong a character as to detach the placenta and forceout both placenta and clots. Warmth is to be applied to thefeet in these cases, and the lower limbs and body should bekept warm with covers of flannel. In case there was a fibrous polypus in the uterus ofsome size, causing the hemorrhage after abortion (which isalmost an unknown instance, as pregnancy will seldom occurin a womb Occupied with a polypus, nor will the polypus de-velop very often, if ever, after pregnancy has occurred), wewill be likely to discover it in our exploration with thesound, used to detect
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