An essay on the puerperal fever / by Thomas Denman.

  • Thomas Denman
Date:
1785
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Credit: An essay on the puerperal fever / by Thomas Denman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    When there are deviations from the regular courfe of labours, the ufefulnefs of midwifery, as well as the (hill and judgement of the practitioner, will be {hewn, in deciding which of thefe require the affiftance of art, and in choofing the fafeft and the beft means of giving relief. There is not throughout nature, an operation more wonderful than the a6h of parturition, and there is little reafon to be furprifed at the bad con- fluences which fometimes follow an alteration fo important, though that alteration be natural. Judging from fpeculative principles, they might be expeCled to occur more frequently, and though they are often occafioned by bad management, tinder the moft promifing circumftances, and with the greateft care, they cannot always be avoided. When a woman is delivered, it feems neceflary to make a moderate and uniform comprefTion upon the abdomen, but binding it tight is certainly im- proper. The abufe of bandage in general has in- tumultuantur ; porredtifque potionibus medicatis, facultatem expultricem irritant; atque morae debits impatientes, dum accelerare ac facilitate partum cupiunt, eundem retardant potius et pervertunt, efficiuntque non naturalem et diffici- lem.—Melius profedo cum pauperculis res agitur, iifque quae furtim gravidae fadse clanculum panunt, nullius obftetricis advocata opera : quanto ennn diutius partum rctinent et mo- rantur, tanto facilius et fciicius rem cxpediunt. Harv, Exercitatio dc Pariu. duced
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