Aristotle's works:: Containing the Master-piece, Directions for Midwives, and Counsel and Advice to Child-bearing Women with Various Useful Remedies — Aristotle — John Shaqi
Aristotle's works:: Containing the Master-piece, Directions for Midwives, and Counsel and Advice to Child-bearing Women with Various Useful Remedies
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CHAPTER IV.
A Guide for Women in Travail, shewing what is to be done when they
Fall in Labour, in order to their Delivery 113
SECT. I. The Signs of the true Time of Woman’s Labour 114
SECT. II. How a Woman ought to be ordered when the time of her
Labour is come 116
CHAPTER V.
SECT. I. What Natural Labour is 123
SECT. II. Of the Cutting of the Child’s Navel-String 128
SECT. III. How to bring away the After-burden 130
SECT. IV. Of Laborious and Difficult Labours, and how the Midwife
is to proceed therein 131
SECT. V. Of Women Labouring with a dead Child 138
CHAPTER VI.
Of Unnatural Labour 142
SECT. I. How to deliver a woman of a Dead Child, by Manual
Operation 143
SECT. II. How a Woman must be Delivered, when the Child’s Feet
come first 146
SECT. III. How to bring away the Head of the Child, when separated
from the Body, and left behind in the Womb 149
SECT. IV. How to deliver a Woman, when the Child’s Head is
presented to the Birth 151
SECT. V. How to deliver a Woman when the Child presents one or
both Hands together with the Head 153
SECT. VI. How a Woman ought to be delivered, when the Hands and
Feet of the Infant come together 154
SECT. VII. How a Woman should be delivered that has Twins, which
present themselves in different Postures 156
CHAPTER VII.
SECT. I. How a Woman newly delivered ought to be ordered 160
SECT. II. How to remedy those Accidents which a Lying-in Woman is
subject to 162
CHAPTER VIII.
Directions for Nurses, in ordering Newly-born Children 168