When miscarriage has actually occurred, the immediate after- treatment should be the same as that pointed out under Labour.
PREVENTION. When a women who has miscarried once becomes pregnant again, she should avoid all causes likely to excite a recurrence, and take, once a day for two or three months before the period corresponding to that of the Miscarriage, a dose of Secale if it were Premature labour, or of Sabina if it were abortion. Cimicifuga or Pulsatilla may be substituted for a few days occasionally if the patient’s symptoms indicate one of these remedies.
Constitutional remedies, where the general health is defective, and likewise necessary – pre-eminently Sepia and Calcarea; the latter if the woman is scrofulous, the former if she has been subject to scanty or irregular menstruation, affections of the skin, sick-headaches, and is delicate.
Every attention should be directed towards maintaining as vigorous a state of constitution as possible. The diet should be good and sufficiently liberal. Open-air exercise should be taken for two or three hours a day, it it can be borne without fatigue. For the bed, a hair mattress over a feather bed is the most suitable; and cold or tepid sponging should be practice night and morning, both in summer and winter. Sometimes a hip- bath should be conjoined with the sponging. The patient should sit in the bath, about half filled with water, for three or four minutes, daily on rising, and whilst in the bath should dash the water upon the stomach and back, with the hand or by means of a sponge. After the bath, the body should be rubbed into a glow with large towel or sheet. Where there are threatening of Miscarriage, the patient must strictly confine herself to the recumbent posture, even for weeks should it be necessary; and after Miscarriage must retain that posture for at least several days. A period of rest is then as necessary to the uterus as after confinement. The repose of body here recommended should be supplemented by a quiet and tranquil state of mind.
LICENTIATE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS; MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS; LICENTIATE IN MIDWIFERY, LONDON AND EDINBURGH, ETC. PHYSICIAN TO THE READING AND BERKSHIRE HOMOEOPATHIC DISPENSARY.
Author of "The Stepping Stone to Homeopathy and Health,"
"Manual of Homoeopathic Treatment". Editor of "The Homoeopathic World."