The anatomy of labour : including that of full-time pregnancy and the first days of the puerperium : exhibited in frozen sections reproduced ad naturam / by A.H.F. Barbour.

  • Alexander Hugh Freeland Barbour
Date:
1889
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Credit: The anatomy of labour : including that of full-time pregnancy and the first days of the puerperium : exhibited in frozen sections reproduced ad naturam / by A.H.F. Barbour. 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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    BttwriGM SOCIETY J PREFACE. The following pages were primarily intended as a Handbook to my Atlas of the Anatomy of Labour, as exhibited in Frozen Sections. They gather up the results obtained from the study of a-11 the sections hitherto published; and, to bring these within the reach of a larger number of readers, this little book has been made as far as possible complete in itself. Though the study of the Anatomy of Labour by frozen sections is a breaking of new ground, yet enough has been done to prove that this virgin soil will yield an abundant harvest and to justify a survey of what has already been gathered in. I have limited myself as much as possible to the study of frozen sections, as these give us the closest approximation to the condition during life; but it has been necessary to supplement this with what has been learned from the study of fresh specimens as well as spirit-hardened sections, especially as regards the condition of the cervix before labour and of the interior of the uterus after it. The book falls into two parts: the first of which