A treatise of midwifery comprehending the management of female complaints and the treatment of children in early infancy.

  • Alexander Hamilton
Date:
1781
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Credit: A treatise of midwifery comprehending the management of female complaints and the treatment of children in early infancy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    when the child changes its pofition after it moves itfelf with difficulty in the uterus, from its increafed fize, it may be confined in the fame pofture dining the remaining time. In this manner preternatural la- bours fometimes happen. Changes the Womb fuffers by Pregnancy. During the progreffive increafe of the. foetus, the womb fuffers confiderable chan- ges, both with regard to its figure, bulk, and fituation. For the firft two or three months, the cavity of the womb is of a triangular figure,- as before impregnation ; but, as it ftretches, it gradually becomes more rounded. In genera], the pregnant, or gravid womb, as it is called, never rifes directly upwards, but inclines a little to one fide, moft com- monly to the right. This never happens, however, in fuch a degree as to prove the fole caufe, either of interrupting or prevent- ing