An essay on difficult labours / [Thomas Denman].

  • Denman, Thomas, 1733-1815
Date:
1787-1791
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Credit: An essay on difficult labours / [Thomas Denman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that independent of fafhion or cuftom, there is a neceffity that women fhould, for their own fafety, be feparated from fociety for a certain time after delivery. On account alfo ofthe form of the uterus, and the peculiarities of its ation; of the bulk of the placenta, and the manner of its conne¢tion, it is more likely to be retained in women than in animals; and its retention may be followed with worfe confe- quences. 3. In.the.confideration .: this fubje@, the paf- fions of the mind are of too evident importance to - efcape attention. Ona variety of occafions, thefe, in human beings, (to acertain degree, ina natural ftate, and much more when heightened by all the refinements and perverfions of fociety,) are found to be capable of producing the moft extraordinary effects ; by fupprefling or fufpending for a certain time the action of any, or of all the powers of the conftitution ; by occafioning them to a@ with irregularity, and at improper times; and in fome cafes alfo by exciting them to a& with too great energy and force. But animals fuffer neither from the recollection of the paft, or dread of the fu- ture ; and acting according to their nature, the good or evil of the prefent moment, to them ap- pears to be the whole of their exiftence.. In the paflions we may then difcover fources of danger, and difturbance inthe parturition of women, eee | which animals are exempt; and the obferyation is. fo