A textbook of obstetrics . ternity locked herself in the water-closet, dropped hei baby down the howl, and turned on the Water. A nurses attention was at length attracted to a stream of water running across the floor of the corridor. Thewater-closel dooi was broken open, the woman pulled oil the scat, and the child,whose head accurately stopped up the exil pipe of the howl, was extracted alive,though it had heen undei watei probably live minutes. All cases of this kind do notend 5< i fortunately. LABOR. 303 afford. It has been demonstrated that such a fear is not justifiedby facts. The dang
A textbook of obstetrics . ternity locked herself in the water-closet, dropped hei baby down the howl, and turned on the Water. A nurses attention was at length attracted to a stream of water running across the floor of the corridor. Thewater-closel dooi was broken open, the woman pulled oil the scat, and the child,whose head accurately stopped up the exil pipe of the howl, was extracted alive,though it had heen undei watei probably live minutes. All cases of this kind do notend 5< i fortunately. LABOR. 303 afford. It has been demonstrated that such a fear is not justifiedby facts. The dangers and disadvantages that, it is claimed, resultfrom the use of anesthetics in labor are: a prolongation of theprocess by weakening the uterine contractions and increasing theintervals between them ; a disposition to postpartum hemor-rhage ; an increased liability to sepsis after labor by a relaxationof the uterine muscle, and a subinvolution of the objections are ill-founded if the anesthetic is administered. Fig. 185.—Bed arranged for child-birth. The mattress is protected by a mackin-tosh, over which a clean sheet is spread. The upper bed-clothes are rolled up at thefoot of the bed. The womans buttocks rest upon a square yard of nursery chair is for the obstetrician ; at his feet is a waste-bucket, into which the pledgetsof cotton used to clean the anus are thrown. The table, in easy reach, has upon ita large basin of sublimate solution, I : 2000, in which are many large pledgets of cot-ton ; a small tin cup on an alcohol lamp to boil the scissors for the cord; a half dozenclean towels ; a pot of carbolated vaselin ; a tumbler of boric-acid solution withs piares of clean soft linen in it for the childs eyes and mouth ; a tube of sterile silkfor the cord. in a proper manner. Accurate observation in some of the largeGerman lying-in hospitals has demonstrated that an anesthetic,if not pushed too far, has no influence on the power, duration,or frequency
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