The art of midwifery reduced to principles: in which, are explained the most safe and established methods of practice, in each kind of delivery; with a summary history of the art: translated from the French original: to which is added an appendix by the translator; containing illustrative remarks on conception and pregnancy: and on those particulars, taught by Dr. Astruc, which vary from the methods adopted by the best accoucheurs here / [Jean Astruc].

  • Astruc, Jean, 1684-1766
Date:
1767
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Credit: The art of midwifery reduced to principles: in which, are explained the most safe and established methods of practice, in each kind of delivery; with a summary history of the art: translated from the French original: to which is added an appendix by the translator; containing illustrative remarks on conception and pregnancy: and on those particulars, taught by Dr. Astruc, which vary from the methods adopted by the best accoucheurs here / [Jean Astruc]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    firft kind of, 47- -fecond kind of, 33—that are not natural. 8 f -—hard and dif¬ ficult, proceed:ng from the child’s prefen ting the head and body obliquely, 98 — —the head and one hand, 85--the face up* tvaids, 86-—-— the feet, 89——-one foot, or one loot and knee, 90-— .toes upwards, 92-- hards, 04-elbows, ib. — -fhoulders, 96 - knees, 98-— —one knee, 99- one leg and one knee, 100 ■——the back, 101, 102 — —the belly, 105—- from the mother, 108 — — from the oliquily of the uterus, ibid.-- from the weaknefs of the uterus, 11 2— •—from the orifice of the uterus, 11 3 ——-from’ the vagina, 113 — ——from the- bkf'on, 117 — —from the co< cvx, 12 2 — — from the child, 123 — —from the child’s head being too big, 124—- from the child’s being dropfical, 127-from the child’s being of a men- fitrous form, I30— — from there being two children in the uterus, 132— — from the after birth, 134 •—-—from the placenta, 2 bid,— ■—firc 01 the a f c r * birth remaining in the ute¬ rus, 137 •—from the umbilical cord, , 14O—— from the coverings, 142 --—from caufes merely accidental, 143— progrefs of, 34—when thought to be efiedled, 36 — when near an end, 46—clan- deliine, duty of rnidwives in, 210 Descensus, or falling down of the uterus, 155—com¬ plete or incomplete, 176— caufed by forcing away too ftrongly the placenta, 343 —how prevented, 303 Dole, judgment of, in fa¬ vour of the delivery by the feet, 62 Dri nk, proper for lying in women, 76 Dropsies of unborn chil¬ dren, how diiiinguifhed. Emollient deco ft ions affift delivery, 39-vapour of, when proper to be ufed,- ibid. —* — clyjlers, when to be given, ibid. Examination of the parts, before delivery, 22 — of the vagina, 23—of the bones of the bafon, 23 — of the orifice of the uterus, 27—of the pofition of the uterus itfelf, 29—whether women be really pregnant, or nog 30-—manner of, 31 — —in the progrefs of delivery, 48—of the body of children newly born. False-germ, wrong notion of a real conception, 147 False-pains what, and how caufed, 24 Feet,