The principles and practice of obstetrics . Fiar. 56. tress, yet you must be firm, and at the same time consolatory—giving her every possible encouragement, and assuring her in termsof emphatic kindness, that in a very few moments there will be anend to her tribulation. The accoucheur has much in his power ; if. he be clever, and comprehend human nature, he can prove the verybalm of Gilead to his patient; he can make her faith in him sostrong, that it will tend very materially to break the intensity ofphysical suffering, and remove from her mind the apprehensions ofgloom and despondency. THE P
The principles and practice of obstetrics . Fiar. 56. tress, yet you must be firm, and at the same time consolatory—giving her every possible encouragement, and assuring her in termsof emphatic kindness, that in a very few moments there will be anend to her tribulation. The accoucheur has much in his power ; if. he be clever, and comprehend human nature, he can prove the verybalm of Gilead to his patient; he can make her faith in him sostrong, that it will tend very materially to break the intensity ofphysical suffering, and remove from her mind the apprehensions ofgloom and despondency. THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF OBSTETRICS. 365 The vulva, during these last throes of the uterus, becomes greatlydistended ; the head protrudes, and the labia externa are appa-rently so tightly drawn over it, that you would imagine it almostimpossible for the birth to be accomplished without serious lacera-tion. But nature is so conservative that, under ordinary circum-stances, the exit of the head is effected without injury to the the interval of pain, there is usually a slight retrocession ofthe head. It is not, you must remember, by one sudden and abruptexpulsive effort, that the delivery is consummated ; on the contrary,it is through a series of consecutive forces, the necessary tendencyof wh
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