Obstetrics

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Appleton, 1904 - 845 páginas
 

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Página 729 - Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, cocoa was largely and successfully cultivated, but in 1725 a blight fell upon the plantations.
Página 397 - Introduce the left hand into the vagina as in podalic version ; place the right hand on the outside of the abdomen in order to make out the position of the fetus, and the direction of the head and feet.
Página 356 - The true obstetrical forceps was devised in the latter part of the sixteenth or the beginning of. the seventeenth century by a member of the Chamberlen family.
Página 397 - ... and the direction of the head and feet. Should the shoulder, for instance, present, then push it with one or two fingers on the top in the direction of the feet. At the same time pressure by the outer hand should be exerted on the cephalic end of the child.
Página 180 - Particular modes and ceremonies of behaviour vary in different countries, and even in different parts of the same town.
Página 233 - ... as the first, and twice in succession witnessed the head clear the vulva after having executed the movement of rotation. Upon the third and following essays delivery was accomplished without the occurrence of rotation. Thus the movement only ceased after the perineum and vulva had lost the resistance which had made it necessary, or at least had been the inciting cause of its accomplishment.
Página 18 - The mechanism by which the pelvis of the foetus is converted into the adult form is of interest, not only from a scientific, but also from a practical, point of view, as it affords important information concerning the mode of production of certain varieties of deformed pelves.
Página 178 - ... ovoid mass, which roughly corresponds with the shape of the uterine cavity. Thus, it is folded or bent upon itself in such a way that the back becomes markedly convex, the head is sharply flexed so that the chin is almost in contact with the breast, the thighs are flexed over the abdomen, the legs are bent at the knee-joints, and the arches of the feet rest upon the anterior surfaces of the legs. The arms are usually crossed over the thorax or are parallel to the sides, while the umbilical cord...
Página 168 - This rule, however, is subject to many exceptions, as apparently well-developed children may be born as early as the two hundred and fortieth, and as late as the three hundred and twentieth day after the last menstrual period...

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