A manual of midwifery for midwives / by Fancourt Barnes.

Date:
1883
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Credit: A manual of midwifery for midwives / by Fancourt Barnes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    INDEX. ABD BDOMINAL gestation, or preg- nancy outside the uterus in the abdomen, 39, 40 — enlargement, 32 — palpation, 34 Abscess of the breast, 89 Accidental haemorrhage, 121 Adherent placenta, 124, 145 After pains, 92 Air in the veins, 155 Amnion, the, or bag of waters, 25 Anatomy of the foetal head, 55 Anteversion of the gravid uterus, 46 Anus, or opening of the lower bowel, 13, 17 Apoplexy, 155 Arbor vita; uterinus, or uterine tree of life, 15 Areola, or ring round the nipple, 19 Ascites or dropsy, 136 Asphyxia, 163 Auscultation of the foetal heart, 35 Autogenetic puerperal fever, 156 I)ACK presentation, 114 ) Bag of waters, 73 Ballottement, or repercussion, 35 — externa], 35 — internal, 35 Belly presentation, 114 Binder, the, 86 Bladder, the interior of the, 13 — disturbances of, 45 Blood-tumour or thrombus, 133 CTS Breast, abscess of, 89 — pump, 89 Breech presentation, 101 Bregmas, the, or fontanelles, 57 Brow presentation, 100 CANAL, the parturient, 6 Caput succedaneum, or sub- sidiary head, 68 Oarunculae myrtiformes, 17 Cams, the curve of, 5 Catamenia, or the monthly dis- charge, 21 Catheter, the, 93 Caul, the, 82 Cervix, rigidity of, 132 Cheesy varnish, or vernix caseosa, 29 Chest presentation, 114 Chorea, or St. Vitus’ dance, 45 Chorion, the, 25 Clitoris, the, 17, 18 Coccyx, the, or tail bone, 1 Colostrum, the, or milk first se- creted, 88 Compound presentations, 114 Concealed accidental haemorrhage, Conjugate diameter, the, 2 Constipation, 42 Convulsions, puerperal, 149 Cord round neck, 84 Corpus luteum, or yellow body, 21 Cough in pregnancy, 43 Cramp in the legs, 74 Cystocele, vaginal, 134 N