A compendium of the theory and practice of midwifery : containing practical instructions for the management of women during pregnancy, in labour, and in child-bed; calculated to correct the errors, and to improve the practice, of midwives; as well as to serve as an introduction to the study of this art, for students and young practitioners / By Samuel Bard.

  • Bard, Samuel, 1742-1821.
Date:
1808
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A compendium of the theory and practice of midwifery : containing practical instructions for the management of women during pregnancy, in labour, and in child-bed; calculated to correct the errors, and to improve the practice, of midwives; as well as to serve as an introduction to the study of this art, for students and young practitioners / By Samuel Bard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    second or a third attempt; for whenever any difficulty presents, it is owing to circumstances not to be over- come by violence, which can never do good, but may do infinite mischief. The causes of such difficulties, and the manner of removing them, will be explained hereafter; one mean is putting the instrument when introduced into the orifice, into the hand of the pa- tient, who, directed by her own feelings, will some- times succeed more easily than any other person ; a caution, however, necessary to be observed respecting the use of the catheter, is not to introckice it unne- cessarily, or before such remedies as warm-bathing, fomentations, a clyster, soft mucilaginous drink. No* 2, with nitre, or mild anodynes. No. 14, according to the nature of the case, as shall hereafter be pointed out, have been tried; because, when it has once been in- troduced, it is frequently found necessary to repeat the operation, from the increased sensibility it induces on the urethra and neck of the bladder. In this plate, all the appendages to the womb, the fallopian tubes and ovaria, together with the flesh, muscles, and cel- lular membrane which line and fill up the cavity of the pelvis, and connect the several organs, are omit- ted, in order to exhibit a more distinct representation of the parts most essential for the information of the midwife.