Parturition without pain or loss of consciousness / / by James Townley.

  • Townley, James.
Date:
1862
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Credit: Parturition without pain or loss of consciousness / / by James Townley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    ZQ CASES. Of the following Letters from 'Patients which I have selected for 'publication^ six relate to cases of first labour^ It Is generally admitted that the suifferlng of first labours equals, if not surpasses, that of subsequent ones. In three of these six labours there was the additioual drawback of age, the youngest being more than twenty-eight years old. In one of these cases also there was a contracted outlet, which retained the head for one hour. It follows, therefore, that if in the severer cases of labour, with obstacles to impede delivery, women can be so fully relieved as not to suffer pain, the more ordinary and milder cases will also have the same relief.