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, (14597360739)

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Title: 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 practitioner ...
Year: 1812 (1810s)
Authors: Bard, Samuel, 1742-1821 Collins & Co., printer
Subjects: Obstetrics
Publisher: New-York: : Printed and sold by Collins and Co. ...
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine



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succeed more easily than any other person : acaution however, necessary to be observed respectingthe use of the catheter, is not to introduce it unne-cessarily, or before such remedies as warm-bathing,fomentations, a clyster, soft mucilaginous drink, No. 48 Of the Female Pelvis (Chap. 1. 2, with nitre, or mild anodynes, No. 14, according tothe nature of the case; as shall hereafter be poimed out,have been tried : because, when it has once been in-troduced, it is frequently found necessary to repeatthe operation, from the increased sensibility it induceson the urethra and neck of the bladder. In this plate,all the appendages to the womb, the fallopian tubesand ovaria, together with the flesh, muscles, and cel-lular membrane, which line and fill up the cavity ofthe pelvis, and connect the several organs, are omittedin order :o exhibit a more distinct representation of theparts most essential for the information of the midwife. SECTION IV. PLATK VIII. Of the Womb and its djifiendages. A.
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Chap. 1.) and its Contents. 49 28 This plate is intended to represent the womb,the fallopian tubes and ovaria dissected front the sur-rounding membranes: on the right side as they ap-pear in the unimpregnated state, on the left soon afterconception. A, the uppermostpartof the wombcalled the fundus. B, the body of the womb. C, the cervix or neck of the womb. D, the internal orifice, called os tincx. E, the fallopian tubes with their fringed extremities. F, the ovaria or egg-beds, by extirpating which, theanimal loses the power of conceiving; they are,therefore, supposed to furnish whatever the femalecontributes to generation. All these organs are in-closed in a duplicative of the peritonaeum, which leav-;ng them forms the broad ligaments of the womb. PLATE IX.