A treatise on midwifery : developing new principles, which tend materially to lessen the sufferings of the patient, and shorten the duration of labour.

  • Power, John.
Date:
1819
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Credit: A treatise on midwifery : developing new principles, which tend materially to lessen the sufferings of the patient, and shorten the duration of labour. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    pondent with the rapid improvement which has characterized other branches of the pro- fession. In the practice of the art, numerous interesting facts have been accumulated, but its principles have received inconsiderable il- lustration. That much remains to perfect its science is evident, when it is considered that the most intelligent and experienced of its professors, not unfrequently, meet with cases which are perplexing, if not inexplicable to them; and the same uncertain states must have occurred to every practitioner of expe- rience. It appears singular, in the present age of abstruse inquiry, that the physiological and pathological researches into the nature of parturition, should have gone little farther than to ascertain that the parturient efforts consisted of contractions of muscular fibres; to the supposititious effects of these muscular contractions, the ostensible phenomena of parturition, as manifested in the production