The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . Fig. 1273.—-The Rectal and Vaginal Sutures of ARE Tied, the Former in the Rectum, Leav-ing ONLY the Two Perineal or External Sutures, 10 AND II, AND the SpHINCTER SuTURE 9 TO BE TiED. APPENDIX. HISTORY RECORDS. In Private Practice.—I am in the habit of urging upon my students the im-portance of starting some method of history-taking in order that they may subse-quently profit by a study of their cases. Should the physician not take upsome methodical system of recording his cases at the outset
The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . Fig. 1273.—-The Rectal and Vaginal Sutures of ARE Tied, the Former in the Rectum, Leav-ing ONLY the Two Perineal or External Sutures, 10 AND II, AND the SpHINCTER SuTURE 9 TO BE TiED. APPENDIX. HISTORY RECORDS. In Private Practice.—I am in the habit of urging upon my students the im-portance of starting some method of history-taking in order that they may subse-quently profit by a study of their cases. Should the physician not take upsome methodical system of recording his cases at the outset of his practice, he isnot likely to do so later. Of course, it is not always pleasant to acknowledge oneserrors upon paper, but one can learn as much or more from a subsequent studyof such errors as from successes. I have at various times in the past used theordinary history sheets and history books for this purpose, but experience hasproved the card system to be more satisfactory, because simple, orderly, and self-. FiG. 1274.—Card Index Case for Obstetrical Histories. indexing. The cards I use are of standard size (6 X 6y|- inches). Such cards areelastic and portable and can readily be used at the bedside or operating room,for, when doubled, the history of the patient can easily be carried in the pocketor card-case. Any of the different methods of indexing the cards may be obstetric cases I use three printed cards: The first, pregnancy ( and 1276); the second, labor (Fig. 1277) and puerperium (Fig. 1278); andthe third, a diagnosis card (Fig. 1279), which is practically a blank and is usedfor complications and where the first two cards prove insufficient to containa given history. My index cards are made for me by the Globe-Wernicke Co.,380-382 Broadway, New York. The observations to be noted under pregnancy (Figs. 1275 and 1276), labor(Fig. 1277), and the puerperium (Fig. 1278) have been carefully selected, and arethe result of many years experience in
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