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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    CHAP. VII. SIGNS AND DURATION OF PREGNANCY, AND RECKONING. A VERY iraportant duty frequently devolves upon the practitioner of midwifery, when lie is called upon to determine as to the actual existence of pregnancy in any individual case. It is necessary for him to be able to solve this question in the or- dinary routine of his business, in order that he may be able to inform his patients of their exact con- dition : again, it is frequently put to him, when there is a doubt as to whether certain symptoms are traceable to disease, or to a gi-avid state of the womb; and, thirdly, his judgment upon this point may be required in the management of some of the gravest concerns of public justice. The question, however, is often much easier asked than answered; and it therefore becomes us to examine carefully those signs that indicate the pregnant condition. The chief of these are:—1. amenorrhoea, or sup- pression of the menses; 2. sympathies of other parts with the irritation of the uterus, viz. of the f3
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