Observations on the management of tedious labour, with an account of the number of cases that occurred in the Lying-In Hospital, Dublin, from November 1800 to the 31st July 1816 / by John Breen.

  • Breen, John.
Date:
1819
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Credit: Observations on the management of tedious labour, with an account of the number of cases that occurred in the Lying-In Hospital, Dublin, from November 1800 to the 31st July 1816 / by John Breen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    with two mentioned as having been «arly delivered by instru- ments, in consequence of the acute inflammation having set in, constitute so small a proportion to the entire number of 11,G9.5 cases, of which account is given, as not to affect the general truth ol the proposition. The total number of cases that oc- curred, of women between twenty and thirty hours ill in the 11,695, was 484. Of the causes of tedious labour, I have avoided making men- tion, as, in the first place, conceiving them closely connected with the physical education of the female sex, the state of so- ciety, and the management of women during pregnancy ;—and, in the next, involving the subject of bringing on premature birth, and the mechanical assistance sometimes necessary to be given in labour. Cavendish Row, Dublin, December 3, 1818.