A system of midwifery / by Edward Rigby.

  • Rigby, Edward, 1747-1821.
Date:
1844
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    viii CONTENTS. CHAPTER III. SIGNS OF THE DEATH OF THE F(ETUS. lifficulty of the subject.-Signs before labour. - Motion of the foetus. - Sound of the foetal ? — Uterine souffle. — Signs during labour where the head presents —where the face the nates, the arm, or the cord, present,—Fetid liquor amnii—Discharge of meconium - Pa^p 64 CHAPTER IV. MOLE PREGNANCY. Nature arid origin. — Varieties. — Diagnostic symptoms. — Treatment - . .67 CHAPTER V.' EXTRA-UTERINE PREGNANCY. Tubarian, ovarian, and ventral pregnancy. — Pregnancy in the substance of the uterus - 70 CHAPTER VI. RETROVERSION OF THE UTERUS. History. — Causes. — Symptoms. — Diagnosis. — Treatment. — Spontaneous terminations - 76 CHAPTER VII. DURATION OF PREGNANCY, p. 83. CHAPTER VIII. PREMATURE EXPULSION OF THE FCETUS. Abortion.— Miscarriage.— Premature labour.— Causes Symptoms. — Prophylactic measures. — Effects of repeated abortion. — Treatment - - - - -86 PART III. EUTOCIA, OR NATURAL PARTURITION. CHAPTER I. STAGES OF LABOUR. Preparatory stage. — Precursory symptoms. — First contractions—Action of the pains Auscultation during the pains. — Effect of the pains upon the pulse Symptoms to be observed during and between the pains. — Character of a true pain. — Formation of the bag of liquor amnii. — Rigor at the end of the first stage— Show. — Duration of the first stage. — Description of the second stage. — Straining pains. — Dilatation of the perineum Ex- pulsion of the child. — Third stage. — Expulsion of the placenta—.Twins - - 95 CHAPTER II. TREATMENT OF NATURAL LABOUR. State of the bowels. — Form and size of the uterus. — True and spurious pains Treatment of spurious pains. —Management of the first stage. —Examination.— Position of the patient during labour. — Prognosis as to the duration of labour. — Diet during labour Supporting the perineum Treatment of perineal laceration. — Cord round the child's neck. — Birth of the child, and ligature of the cord. — Importance of ascertaining that the uterus is contracted after labour Management of the placenta. — Twins—Treatment after labour. — Lac- tation.—Milk fever and abscess. — Excoriated nipples. — Diet during lactation. — Manage- men of lochia, — After-pains - - - - 104' CHAPTER III. MECHANISM OF PARTURITION. Cranial presentations — first and second position Face presentations — first and second po- sitions. — Nates presentations - . 124