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A Handbook of Uterine Therapeutics and of Diseases of Women
A Handbook of Uterine Therapeutics and of Diseases of Women Author:Edward John Tilt Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 16 MENSTRUATION IN Menstruation in relation to hygiene and pathology will frequently come under consideration, but this is a fit place to mention the bearings... more » of this important function on therapeutics and surgery. The first question that arises is, whether it be necessary to suspend the administration of certain medicines during menstruation ? The rule is, to leave off all medicines at the menstrual periods, and if it be desirable to interrupt a course of medicine, it is a convenient time to do so; but I have not found any inconvenience from letting patients continue a course of steel or quinine during menstruation. It is best to stop the exhibition of the mineral acids, although I have known them to have been taken at those periods without checking the menstrual flow. In ordinary cases, it is commendable to advise patients to leave off injections, but if it be a question of a long-standing case of uterine inflammation, with a great tendency to relapse, it ia better to let the patient use the usual injections on the third day of the flow, provided they are used warm. Occasionally I have advised their use during the whole course of menstruation, and with marked advantage. All surgical operations on the sexual organs, or on any other part of the body, should be postponed till a few days after the period, so as to avoid the chance of checking the flow. Mr. Paget admits the propriety of adopting this rule, although his own experience seems to show that its utility may have been exaggerated. " I have seen," says this eminent surgeon, " no mischief occur in the few cases in which, by oversight or by necessity, I have operated either directly before or during a menstrual period. The cases have not been many, but in none of them has any mischief ensued. Not unfrequently the occurrence...« less