A report of the practice of midwifery, at the Westminster General Dispensary, during 1818 ; including new classifications of labours, abortions, female complaints, and the diseases of children; with computations on the mortality among lying-in women, and children; and the probabilities of abortion taking place at different periods of pregnancy, &c., &c., with select cases and formulae / By Augustus Bozzi Granville.

  • Granville, A. B. (Augustus Bozzi), 1783-1872.
Date:
1819
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Credit: A report of the practice of midwifery, at the Westminster General Dispensary, during 1818 ; including new classifications of labours, abortions, female complaints, and the diseases of children; with computations on the mortality among lying-in women, and children; and the probabilities of abortion taking place at different periods of pregnancy, &c., &c., with select cases and formulae / By Augustus Bozzi Granville. 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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    Nine women out of the 640 had twins, and produced Children alive and at the full time 14 Still-born, or before the nine months ,. 4 Proportion of twin cases 1 in 71 f both Males in two cases. Sex of the twins \ both Females in four cases. (vMale and Female in three cases. C. Nature of the Labours. Active Labours (1)< 515 Within the first 12 hours. Beyond 12 hours. 104 Passive Labours (2) General Total ^40 (1) Terminated, without the slightest interference, by nature alone. (2) When nature becomes passive, or insufficient, and the assistance, either of the hand or instruments, is absolutely necessary to terminate the labour. * I first established this new and simple classification, while preparing a course of Lectures on Midwifery, which it is my intention soon to deliver. The complicated arrange- ments in all the existing methods may thus be simplified, and the formidable display of names given to Labours, omitted without, I hope, any inconvenience to the practitioner. Mr,