Excerpt from The Birmingham Medical Review, Vol. 45: A Monthly Journal of the Medical Sciences; January to June There can be no doubt that far too often forceps are applied with the undilated 05, and one should sometimes rather sympathise with than blame the practitioner, especially if he be young. He has on the one side the patient and her friends begging of. Him to do something to deliver the woman at once, and the consciousness that if anything goes wrong. During the puerperium he will be blamed because he allowed the ...
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Excerpt from The Birmingham Medical Review, Vol. 45: A Monthly Journal of the Medical Sciences; January to June There can be no doubt that far too often forceps are applied with the undilated 05, and one should sometimes rather sympathise with than blame the practitioner, especially if he be young. He has on the one side the patient and her friends begging of. Him to do something to deliver the woman at once, and the consciousness that if anything goes wrong. During the puerperium he will be blamed because he allowed the child to be so long in the birth. He has also on this side his own desire to terminate the labour and secure well-earned rest, and on the opposite side he has his own conscientious con viction that interference at this stage is not the right thing, and that it will be better for the patient to wait for further dilatation of the as before applying forceps. In the second stage inertia is not so common, but in prima parae one fairly often sees'cases in which the pains and the progress go on satisfactorily until the head reaches the perinaeum, and then, owing to a disproportion between the pains and the resistances, it is very difficult to say which is at fault, most aggra vating delay may occur. It has often struck me that this con dition is due to the fact that the civilised woman adopts a more or less recumbent attitude for this stage of labour, and that the natural position, and the one usually assumed by women of uncivilised nations, is the squatting one, as in defaecation in this position gravity aids the advance of the head, and the bearing down efforts can be made with much more vigour. As illustrating this I may point to the fact that many patients when confined to bed find it almost impossible to defaecate in a bed-pan when lying on their back, but when allowed to use the chair have no difficulty and I may say here in passing that I think doctors and nurses are frequently too particular in forbidding patients to get gently out of bed to use a commode, and I have seen some most troublesome accumu tions in the rectum from this cause. L, have never yet ventured to put into practice this theory as to the squatting position, but I make the suggestion, and perhaps some bolder than myself in defying the conventions may carry it out. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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