Lectures on natural and difficult parturition / by Edward William Murphy.
- Murphy, Edward W. (Edward William), 1802-1877.
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Lectures on natural and difficult parturition / by Edward William Murphy. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
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![]0 CONTENTS. LECTURE IV. MECHANISM OF PARTURITION, CONCLUDED. Second Stage of Natural Labour—Bearing Pains—Passage of the Head through the Pelvis—Positions of the Head according to various Authors—Naegele s Views—Mode of distinguishing Vertex Positions—Varieties in Face-Pre- sentations—Characters of—not so dangerous as had been supposed—Dilata- tion of the Perinaeum—Expulsion of the Head—Direction of the Shoulders. Tiiird Stage—Separation of the Placenta—Causes of Retention—without Hae- morrhage 73—89 LECTURE V. - MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL LABOUR. Premonitory Symptoms of Labour—Evidence of the Commencement of the first Stage—Character of the Grinding Pains. Obstetric Duties of the Practitioner —When summoned to attend—Caution respecting his Patient—Objects of the A^aginal Examination in the first Stage, before the Membranes are ruptured— Signs of the first Stage being completed—Mode of preparing the Bed, and sup- porting the Patient 90—103 XECT.URE VI. MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL LABOUR, CONTINUED. Second Stage—Obstetric Duties of the Practitioner—Vaginal Examination—Its Objects—Support of the Perinaeum—Its Intention and Mode of Accomplish- ment. Tliird Stage—Removal of the Placenta—Support of the Uterus—The Abdominal Bandage—Its Object and Mode of Application—Management of retained Placenta without Haemorrhase : . 104—116 LECTURE VII. DIFFICULT LABOURS. Difficult Labours divided into Tedious and Laborious Labours—Causes of Tedious Labours—Over-Distension of the Uterus—Extreme Obliquity—Gradual Escape of Liquor Amnii—Hysterical Excitement—Mental Despondency—Rigidity of Os Uteri from Lrflammation—Toughness of Os Uteri—Extreme Rigidity, etc. 117—132 LECTURE VIII. LABORIOUS LABOURS. Causes of delay in the Second Stage of Labour: Head of the Child misplaced —Too large, and too much Ossified—Hydrocephalic—Pelvis like the Male Pelvis—Deformed—The Ovate Pelvis—The Cordiform Pelvis—Head of the Child above the Brim of the Pelvis—Fixed in the Brim—Arrested in the Cavity—Characters of Arrest and Impaction of the Head .... 133—147](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21197404_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
