The five obstetric examinations / by Robert L. Dickinson.

  • Dickinson, Robert Latou, 1861-1950.
Date:
[1905]
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Credit: The five obstetric examinations / by Robert L. Dickinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Reprinted from Brooklyn Medica THE FIVE OBSTETRIC EXAMINATION BY ROBERT L. DICKINSON, M.D. The examinations that should be matters of routine during pregnancy, labor and the post- partum state, belong to five periods: ist, In the second month ; 2d, In the eighth month ; 3d, During labor and at its conclusion; 4th, Two weeks after delivery; 5th, Two months after delivery. 1. In the second month.-—Its object is to make sure of pregnancy, and to determine that no cause exists that might terminate the pregnancy, such as retroversion, marked anteflexion, tumors, ad- hesions, cysts of the cervix or tubal gestation. Retroversion is so common and causes so little dysmenorrhea in certain healthy uteri of healthy women that its presence must be suspected until the particular uterus is proved innocent. For in- stance, a young Californian, active in out-door sports, yet with that alertness and culture usually accompanied by sensitiveness, had never suffered a qualm of discomfort at her well-timed periods. I had to apologize to myself for applying the rule to her, especially as she had not known nausea * Read before the Brooklyn Gynecological Society, December s, 1904.