A synopsis of the various kinds of difficult parturition : with practical remarks on the management of labours / ... With notes and additions, by Thomas C. James.
- Samuel Merriman
- Date:
- 1816
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Credit: A synopsis of the various kinds of difficult parturition : with practical remarks on the management of labours / ... With notes and additions, by Thomas C. James. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![born strong and healthy; want of motion therefore, in the child, cannot alone be considered as proving the child's death: but, joined with other symptoms, it will materially assist the practitioner in forming his opinion. [A deformed pelvis is said, by the most intelligent travellers, to be unknown among the female aborigines of our continent—and it is a very happy circumstance, that it is a very rare occurrence among the women born and educated in the United States. This will be readily understood by the medical reader. Children and women in this country, are not subjected to so many causes producing Rachitis and Malacosteon: such as scanty and bad food, sedentary confinement in crowded manufactories, and other debilitating processes so com- mon in Europe.—Hence the propriety of pausing and reflecting, before ever having recourse to the operation of Embryulcia, the necessity of which must be so ex- •eedingly rare in our happy country.]—Ed.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21140790_0075.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
