An introduction to the practice of midwifery. Vol. II. / [Thomas Denman].
- Thomas Denman
- Date:
- 1798
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An introduction to the practice of midwifery. Vol. II. / [Thomas Denman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![caufes of many difficulties and dangers which attend parturition, will be evident; and of courfe, the neceffity of eftablifhing midwifery, as an art, for the relief of women, will be evinced. But to render thele obfervations, with others, diffufed through this work, of greater ufe, I fhall endeavour to reduce them into propofitions in the following order : i ft. All viviparous animals bring forth their young with pain. 2d. The degree of pain which they fufFer, will depend upon the degree of their fenfibility, natural or acquired, and upon the difficulty with which they bring forth their young. 3d. The difficulty with which they, in genera], bring forth their young, depends upon their conftruftion. 4th. By their conftru&ion, they are alfo endued with powers capable of overcoming all the difficulties to which fuch conftrudtion generally renders them liable. 5th. The procels of parturition in animals is therefore to be efteemed a natural procefs, requiring no other affiftance, than the exer- tion of thofe powers which depend upon their conftru&ion. \ on. II. C 6th. c](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2877453x_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
