A Handbook of Uterine Therapeutics 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 ABITSE OP ANIMAL FOOD. flow or its proximity, and even during the time when it ought to come, whatever may be the reason of its non-appearance. If the line... more » be easy, and on the broad guage, the patient cannot do better than lie down as on a sofa ; if the line be bad it is better to ait up, on an air cushion, for every part of the carriage that is leaned against for support replies by a more or less severe jar and concussion. . 2. Diet. — When uterine inflammation and ulceration have not a traumatic origin, they often seem to depend on some hidden unhealthiness of the blood plasma, and purulent secretion may be considered as a process set on foot to purify the blood. Without neglecting the treatment of the local diseases, the physician must not overlook the state of the blood in which they may take rise, and in the absence of more precise indication, he must fall back on the recognised canons of hygiene. This is so true, that atonic ulcers of the legs often reflect the regimen of the patient. These ulcers will not heal if the supply of food is insufficient or indigestible; the same holds good with uterine ulcers. In other words, blood distemperatures keep alive inflammation, and if, as Dr. Addison has said, keeping peas in a sore protracts granulation and discharge, so does a perseverance in unwholesome articles of food. It must be also remembered that overfeeding interferes with the good progress of inflammatory exudation, and the surgeon finds that a quick, full pulse checks that adhesion of external wounds which is promoted by quiet circulation. The same holds good in uterine pathology. The food should be wholesome, sufficiently abundant, but meat is seldom required more than once a day. Patients are often condemned to take an amount of animal food which they know will d...« less