Volume 2

Essay on the puerperal fever / by Thomas Denman.

  • Thomas Denman
Date:
1773
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Essay on the puerperal fever / by Thomas Denman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of freeing the woman from her mifery, we fhould confider that the bufinefs is intended to proceed llowly, and fhould be left entirely to Nature without interruption. When there are / deviations from the regular courfe of labors, the ufefulnefs of Midwifry, as well as the fkill of the practitioner will be (hewn, in decid¬ ing which of thefe require the affiftance of art, and in choofing the fafeft and belt means of relieving them. There is not throughout Nature an opera¬ tion more wonderful than the aft of parturi¬ tion. There is noreafon to be furprifed at the bad confequences which fometimes follow an alteration fo violent, though that violence be natural. Judging from Ipeculative principles, they might be expected to occur more fre¬ quently ; and though they are often ocea- fionedby mifmanagement, under the beft cir- cumftances and with the greateft caution, they cannot alwavs be avoided. j When a woman is delivered it feems necefla- ry to make a moderate and uniform compref- fion upon the abdomen, but binding it tight is certainly improper. In almoft every re- fpect, the regimen which has been enjoined to B 4 women
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