The Dublin practice of midwifery / by Henry Maunsell.

  • Henry Maunsell
Date:
1856
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Credit: The Dublin practice of midwifery / by Henry Maunsell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by itself, wlien the former is not needed, will veiy generally afford relief. The best mode of enabling a student to mark the distinction between the true and false pains, will probably be to impress upon him just notions of the character of the former, M'hich we shall now proceed to consider. The suffering from true pains is usually referred to the back and loins, whence it shoots round to the upper part of the thighs; or at first, perhaps, it commences in the lower region of the abdomen, and darts baclcAvard to the loins through the cervix of the uterus. True pains recur with perfect regularity, the interval between any two of them being equal, or gradually and regularly diminishing as labom- advances.* If we place our finger upon the OS uteri during a true pain, we find that it is tightened and contracted in some degree, more or less, according to the strength of the uterine action; when that ceases it relaxes, and will be found more dilated than it was before the pain commenced. When the dilatation has somewhat advanced, the membranes can be distinguished pressing into the opening during a pain. A marked difference exists in the character of the pains, according to the period of the labour: * The interval between pains may yary in different cases from one minute to thirty or forty, according to tlie activity of the uterus.
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