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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    that, during lactation, the areola retains the same appearances, and that, ia some instances of actual pregnancy, these may not be observable at all. With respect to the increase in the size of the breasts, we must be careful to distinguish knotty glandular development, which is the true sign of pregnancy, from fatty enlargement, which not unfrequently perplexes our diagnosis, especially when we have to deal with a patient who has been married at a late period of life. Such individuals are apt to become suddenly corpulent, in consequence of the change effected by marriage both in their moral and physical constitution ; and, being usually very anxious for heirs, they often mistake the fatty increase of their breasts for a certain indication of pregnancy. Quickening.—By this is understood the first sensation, on the part of the mother, of the motions of the child in utero. It occurs usually about the sixteenth week*, sometimes a little earlier or later, and is by some supposed to happen always at the time when the uterus first rises out of the pelvis into the abdomen. I believe this ascent sometimes occurs rather suddenly, and is under such circum- stances attended with a feeling of nausea and * Some women come to very accurate conclusions respecting the period of their labour from observing the time of quickening. I have heard women assert that they quickened at different, but yegular periods, with boys and girls.
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