Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c11.29

c11.29

If, on the contrary, the foetus is developed and dead, the womb looks stretched, tight and cold as if there were a stone inside. The pain is very violent, the foetus does not move, there appear no birth-contractions and there is no excretion from the vagina; on the contrary there is giddiness, thirst, difficult breathing and exhaustion, the eyes are sunk, the woman feels herself very uncomfortable, wavers around, gets convulsions, is partly unconscious and fatigued, cries, cannot sleep by day and night on account of difficult breathing, snorts, feels pain in taking breath and becomes cachectic. By these signs the death of the foetus is known (Car 4.8.26; AS 2.4.216; AHr 2.2.22-24). Su 2.8.9 mentions as symptoms the cessation of child's movements and birth-throes, a blackish pale colour of the face, stinking breath and pricking pain.