Syllabus of lectures on midwifery, and the diseases of women and children / by G. Oakley Heming.

  • Heming, George Oakley.
Date:
[between 1830 and 1839?]
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Credit: Syllabus of lectures on midwifery, and the diseases of women and children / by G. Oakley Heming. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    II. Where turning is unnecessary, comprehend- ing the presentation of all the parts situated below the umbilicus. IV. Complicated Labour: I. Twins, Triplets, &c. II. Puerperal convulsions ; III. Uterine hmmorrhagy before the birth of the child ; IV. Rupture of the Uterus ; V. Inversion of the Uterus. CLASS I.—NATURAL LABOUR. The duration of human pregnancy about nine calendar months, or, more accurately, 40 weeks, or 280 days—error on this point—various opinions as regards the duration of human pregnancy—discrepancy of medical evidence in the Gardiner peerage case—mode of calculating the period at which a pregnant woman will probably be confined. Diagnosis of labour:—important to decide at once whether the patient be actually in labour or not. The toucher—mode of performing it—false pains—how distinguished from labour- pains—os uteri frequently dilated to the size of a sixpence, or more, a fortnight before labour—a fact known to Mauriceau —treatment of “ false pains.” Division of labour into three stages : 1. Dilatation of the os uteri and rupture of the membranes ; 2. Descent of the child ; dilatation of the external parts ; expulsion of the child ; 3. Separation of the placenta ; the expulsion or ex- traction of the placenta; due contraction of the uterus. Description of each of these ;—duties of the accoucheur : 1. To support the perineum ; 2. To divide the funis ; 3. To remove the placenta.
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