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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 65 of 653coagula of considerable size even while yet in the uterus. In addtion to this loss of blood we notice the most varied symptoms ofconstitutional disturbance, such as : excited temperament, anxietrestlessness, labor-like pains, colic, urinary difficulties, vomiconvulsions, spasmodic laughter and weeping. If the hemorrhagelasts a sufficient length of time, symptoms of ansemia make theirappearance. The importance to the organism of such hemorrhagesshould not be estimated too lightly ; even the most trifling hemorhage may, by its continuance or by an extraordinary increase ofthe loss of blood, permanently impair the patient's health and evthreaten her life.Uterine hemorrhage shortly after the expulsion of the fetus, constitutes one of the most important and dangerous events. Whereit is not caused by injuries of the uterine parenchyma, it almostalways results from deficiency of the uterine contractions. A deficiency of this kind is not always owing to atony of the uterussuch as may result from tedious labor or violent labor-pains, oreven from general debility ; it may likewise depend upon circumstances that render the necessary contractions even after normallabor-pains impossible. Among such circumstances we number atoo rapid labor, partial adhesions of the placenta, and the preseof copious coagula in the uterus. "We have only to do here withhemorrhages depending upon atony and deficient contractions ofthe uterus; these hemorrhages alone are accessible to medicinalinfluences. Hemorrhages of this kind occur immediately after confinement ; they must be expected if the uterus remains large andsoft. Sleep, immediately after confinement, may become the causeor at least the promoter of hemorrhage ; it should not be indulgein. The symptoms of hemorrhage can only escape detection, if theaccident occurs within the womb. The os tincse and the vaginaare so filled with coagula that the blood remains confined withinthe uterine cavity, which again becomes distended by the accumulated fluid. As in every other copious loss of blood, the symptom68 Diseases of the Female Sexual Organs.of aneemia become rapidly manifest, such as pallor of the countenance, chilliness, cold sweat, obscuration of sight, fainting,decrease of the pulse, convulsions ; the uterus, moreover, feelsand increases perceptibly in size. This accident is generally unacompanied by pain.Hemorrhage occurring at a later period of confinement, is generally less copious ; it likewise originates in deficient uterine ctions, or in inflammatory processes, but the prognosis in such cais unfavorable. Hemorrhages of this kind occur more particularlythe case of women who do not nurse their children ; the intense sulation generally caused by the nursing, now reacts npon the uterHemorrhages during pregnancy are sometimes of trifling importance, and at other times more threatening. Some women arein the habit of menstruating several times after conception withodetriment to the fnetus. It has seemed to us as though children bof such mothers at full term, and having otherwise their full development, were less vigorous and disposed to a variety of ailmenHemorrhages during the second half of pregancy, if not dependingupon placenta prsBvia, originate in the same causes as those of thttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt