Human physiology (Volume 2) . lso, Quetelet, i. 130. ? Op. citat. p. 366. vol. ii. — 37 434 GENERATION. if we subtract the deaths from causes not the results of childbirth,the mortality, from effects arising in consequence of parturition, isvastly reduced, viz. to 1 in 244. In the year 1839, childbirth wasfatal to 2915 women throughout England and Wales. Of 1,000,000females living, 36S died from this cause in 1838, and 372 in 5 births in 1000, it was estimated, were fatal to the 1840, the ratio was greater, about 1 in The further details of this subject belong more a
Human physiology (Volume 2) . lso, Quetelet, i. 130. ? Op. citat. p. 366. vol. ii. — 37 434 GENERATION. if we subtract the deaths from causes not the results of childbirth,the mortality, from effects arising in consequence of parturition, isvastly reduced, viz. to 1 in 244. In the year 1839, childbirth wasfatal to 2915 women throughout England and Wales. Of 1,000,000females living, 36S died from this cause in 1838, and 372 in 5 births in 1000, it was estimated, were fatal to the 1840, the ratio was greater, about 1 in The further details of this subject belong more appropriately toobstetrics. j. Lactation. — When the child has been separated from themother, and continues to live by the exercise of its own vitalpowers, it has still to be dependent upon her for the nutrimentadapted to its tender condition. Whilst in utero this nutrimentconsisted of fluids placed in contact with it, but, after birth, a secre-tion serves this purpose, which has to be received into the stomach Fig. Milk Ducts in Human ducts are filled with wax. — (Sir Jlstley Cooper.) and undergo the digestive process. This secretion is the milk. Itis prepared by the mammas or breasts, the number, size, and situa- a W. Farr, in Third Annual Report of the Registrar-general of Births, Deaths andMarriages in England, p. 74, London, 1841. b W. Farr, in Fourth Annual Report, &c, &c, p. 219, Lond. 1842.
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