Theory and practice of midwifery / Illustrated with appropriate plates. Also, third edition, (improved), of Remarks on the present manner of treating new-born infants. With, A description of the tubes, in which oxygen-gas, or vital-air, passes through the lungs to the blood

  • Chartres, George.
Date:
1816
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Credit: Theory and practice of midwifery / Illustrated with appropriate plates. Also, third edition, (improved), of Remarks on the present manner of treating new-born infants. With, A description of the tubes, in which oxygen-gas, or vital-air, passes through the lungs to the blood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3G after-birth, with greater facility and expe¬ dition than it otherwise coaid have done. This set me to com rive a way for prevent¬ ing the escane ox a tier-birth blood ; simple O JL ? i the process indeed 1 i: was by a second die navci-stcnir at such dis¬ feature on O % u tauce from the first as allowed me to cut between, but though this to a certainty will shorten the time of detachment, this part of the delivery wifi try the patience of Practitioners. Though some may be pleas¬ ed at my setting them right, 1 fear much j o e> 1 the greater number will be the contrary, from my letting the necessitv of such length of attendance in most cases be saen, as must prove nearly the same as perpetual imprisonment ;* particularly to those in good practice, along with its operating so as to prevent them indivi¬ dually from attending as many Patients, in a given time as they otherwise could.*]' The delivery of the woman of the after¬ birth, is thus to he conducted—the Accou¬ cheur having given the child to the atten¬ dant, is then to coil, or gather in his hand, that part of the navel-string which lies out, in order to keep it from getting entangled with the bed-clothes, lest by such incident the after-birth might be torn from the * Twenty eases of twelve hour# delay occurring, for every cue of hut thiee or four. f I declare most solemnly, I have j-a'd in those cas^s, the same strictness of attention where I ksifiW l vrjul- re¬ ceive no Ice, aj where I knew I would. i