. Obstetrics for nurses. )ossil)le, because of the connectionbetween the two Fig. 51.—Fetus papyraceous attached to membranes ofliving child. (Williams after Ribemont-Dcssaignes.) CIIAPTEE VPRENATAL CARE The introduction of antiseptic and aseptic technic and the develop-ment of reasonable operative procedures have marked the advance ofthe art of obstetrics during the nineteenth centary. The result has beenthe reduction of the former appalling maternal death rate from puerperalinfection to a point where maternity is relatively safe. At presentuncomplicated delivery rarely leads to a
. Obstetrics for nurses. )ossil)le, because of the connectionbetween the two Fig. 51.—Fetus papyraceous attached to membranes ofliving child. (Williams after Ribemont-Dcssaignes.) CIIAPTEE VPRENATAL CARE The introduction of antiseptic and aseptic technic and the develop-ment of reasonable operative procedures have marked the advance ofthe art of obstetrics during the nineteenth centary. The result has beenthe reduction of the former appalling maternal death rate from puerperalinfection to a point where maternity is relatively safe. At presentuncomplicated delivery rarely leads to a fatal issue, the majority ofdeaths resulting from the more unusual and less understood complica-tions. After the application of surgical principles had reduced thedeath rate from infection and from operative interference to relativelyminimal proportions, jirogressive obstetricians turned their attentionto the prevention of disease. Prenatal care, as it is c-alled, is in large part a twentieth-centurydevelopment and is progressing side by side with general preventivemedicine. By ca
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