Partial and complete.--Causes.--Diagnosis and symptoms.-- Treatment.--Chronic inversion.--Extirpation of the uterus, 345 CHAPTER VIII. ENCYSTED PLACENTA. Situation in the uterus.--Adherent placenta.--Prognosis and treatment.--Placenta left in the uterus.--Absorption of retained placenta, 354 CHAPTER IX. PRECIPITATE LABOUR. Violent uterine action.--Causes.--Deficient resistance.-- Effects of precipitate labour.--Rupture of the cord.-- Treatment.--Connexion of precipitate labour with mania, 361 CHAPTER X. PROLAPSUS OF THE UMBILICAL CORD. Diagnosis.--Causes.--Treatment.--Reposition of the cord, 368 CHAPTER XI. PUERPERAL CONVULSIONS. Epileptic convulsions with cerebral congestion.--Causes.-- Symptoms.--Tetanic species.--Diagnosis of labour during convulsions.--Prophylactic treatment.--Treatment--Bleeding.-- Purgatives.--Apoplectic species.--Anæmic convulsions.-- Symptoms.--Treatment.--Hysterical convulsions.--Symptoms, 376 CHAPTER XII. PLACENTAL PRESENTATION, OR PLACENTA PRÆVIA. History.--Dr. Rigby's division of hæmorrhages before labour into accidental and unavoidable.--Causes.--Symptoms.-- Treatment.--Plug.--Turning.--Partial presentation of the placenta.--Treatment, 393 CHAPTER XIII. PUERPERAL FEVERS. Nature and varieties of puerperal fever.--Vitiation of the blood.--Different species of puerperal fever.--Puerperal peritonitis.--Symptoms.--Appearances after death.-- Treatment.--Uterine phlebitis.--Symptoms.--Appearances after death.--Treatment.--Indications.--False peritonitis.-- Treatment.--Gastro-bilious puerperal fevers.--Symptoms.-- Appearances after death.--Treatment.--Contagious or adynamic puerperal fevers.--Symptoms.--Appearances after death.-- Treatment, 415 CHAPTER XIV. PHLEGMATIA DOLENS. Nature of the disease.--Definition of phlegmatia dolens.-- Symptoms.--Duration of the disease.--Connexion with crural phlebitis.--Causes.--Connexion between the phlegmatia dolens of lying-in women and puerperal fever.--Anatomical characters.--Treatment.--Phlegmatia dolens in the unimpregnated state, 463 CHAPTER XV. PUERPERAL MANIA. Inflammatory or phrenitic form.--Treatment.--Gastro-enteric form.--Treatment.--Adynamic form.--Causes and symptoms.-- Treatment, 473 INDEX, 483 A SYSTEM OF MIDWIFERY. INTRODUCTION.