The Accoucheur's Emergency Manual-Homeopathy in Pregnancy

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The book is an unique effort by the author to provide an emergency manual towards the conditions related to pregnancy. This work deals exclusively with the remedies and their application to the abnormal conditions of parturition, those which occur directly before, during or after labor or abortion.

NECESSITY is not only the mother of invention, but the impelling force in the preparation of such monographs as this little book. Who, with a heart, does not pity the suffering parturient woman; who would not labor to relieve her sufferings when he felt that he could. This has been the force be- hind the pen of the author. There need be no excuse for sympathy.

Having relieved suffering, and hastened to natural labor, cases that would otherwise have been of necessity instrumental, by the aid of the manuscript of this book, and knowing from experience that the indicated remedy is the parturient woman's best friend, restoring the parts to a normal condition, and giving as nearly a painless labor as the circumstances and formation of the parts permit, my sympathy for those who bring into the world human life and the immortal soul has induced me to offer this aid to the profession.

It is hoped this manual will lead the accoucheur to the indicated remedy direct, without hesitation or delay. The set of Repertories will aid in this. The experience of the many is that of uncertainty at the bed- side, with the necessity of guessing or of re- turning to the office to "look up" the case, thus losing valuable time, or recourse to that worse practice of "regular" means and meddlesome midwifery. This manual will remedy this difficulty, and give the prescriber the power to relieve suffering, and bring glory to the great cause of Homœopathy. If the prescriber will depend on his remedies, care- fully selecting them at the bedside, he will gain confidence in them and in himself, for in no sphere do the remedies act more promptly and efficiently, like magic transferring real pain into the expulsive force of labor with- out undue suffering.

THE object of this Manual is to give assistance in the emergency, at the bedside, and to preclude the necessity of carrying one or more large volumes as aids, or of going to the office for help. It is presumed that the user is fully acquainted with all the various presentations, the irregularities of the parts, the use of instruments, the manner of turning, etc., etc.

This work deals exclusively with the remedies and their application to the abnormal conditions of parturition, those which occur directly before, during, or after labor or abortion. It does not deal with those conditions wherein the physician has plenty of time for consideration, as in many ailments during gestation, and those following some days after delivery. It is strictly an emergency manual, yet containing all the symptoms of the rubrics treated of, and many indications of remedies not usually considered critical, as it is impossible to tell before- hand what symptoms may be the keynotes in the emergency hour to either save life or prevent undue suffering. Strictly speaking, only those conditions endangering life would be emergency conditions, but as any undue suffering or abnormality may be the pre- cursor or direct cause of the emergency condition, indications of remedies covering these must, of necessity, be included in such a work. As far as possible, all indications of remedies for labor and abortion, with hæmorrhage and eclampsia, are given.

In the urgent desire to have all the symptoms that might be possibly called for in the emergency, and to give a true picture of the remedy, some symptoms which may seem far-fetched are included. It is by far safer to have a few symptoms that may never or seldom be used, than to omit any that might save life or suffering. Then, in the homeopathic treatment of any case it is impossible to tell what symptom may be indicative of the simillimum, or what remedy may be called for. Any remedy in the whole range of homeopathic materia medica may be indicated in any given case.