The accoucheur, a treatise on protracted natural labours; suspended animation in new born infants; and uterine haemorrhage after the birth of the child. With illustrative cases / [John Craig].

  • Craig, John
Date:
1839
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    forms of protracted labours. The conclusion we ulti- mately came to, regarding the causes of delay in such labours, is as follows. The first cause of delay in protracted labour, is in- flammation ; the second is congestion; the third, an excess of sensibility ; and the fourth is spasmodic. These four obstructing causes to delivery, associat- ed with a deranged state of bowels, are the only dis- tinctions requiring particular notice in the manage- ment of these labours. All these retarding causes may be combined in the same labour, but it is not necessary that they should all be present to constitute one of the most distressing and obstinate kind; for sometimes it appears that excess of sensibility alone is the principal obstructing cause. Before we proceed to point out the symptoms of the several causes of protraction in labour, we shall first shortly assign our reasons for fixing on the num- ber of 423 successive cases of labour, on which the following observations on protracted labours have been founded. In the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal for Oct. 1833, our attention was directed to a report drawn up by Dr Maunsell, accoucheur to the Wellesley Fe- male Institution, Ireland. In this report it is stated that in 423 cases of actual labour in that institution, the labour continued between 12 and 18 hours in 35 cases; between 18 and 24 hours in 24 cases; between