. An American text-book of obstetrics. For practitioners and students. ological operations. It must be sterilized care-fully before using. It is unnecessary to say that the entire dressing of the bed must be clean inthe surgical sense. The Patient.—The patient should be directed to receive a bath at thebeginning of labor and to make an entire change of linen. She will usuallyprefer to be dressed in her night-clothing, over which, during the first stage,she may wear a loose wrapper. A napkin or a pad kept wet with Thierschssolution and worn over the vulva during this stage is a simple and usefu
. An American text-book of obstetrics. For practitioners and students. ological operations. It must be sterilized care-fully before using. It is unnecessary to say that the entire dressing of the bed must be clean inthe surgical sense. The Patient.—The patient should be directed to receive a bath at thebeginning of labor and to make an entire change of linen. She will usuallyprefer to be dressed in her night-clothing, over which, during the first stage,she may wear a loose wrapper. A napkin or a pad kept wet with Thierschssolution and worn over the vulva during this stage is a simple and usefulantiseptic measure. The Obstetric Bag.—It is recommended that the obstetric bag be largeenough to contain all the instruments and other surgical appliances that maybe needed in ordinary labors. The equipment should comprise obstetric for-ceps; a Davidson syringe; a hypodermic syringe; a glass uterine douche-tube ; a soft-rubber catheter; a soft-rubber tube with bulb attached for aspi-rating mucus from the childs throat in case of asphyxia; a half-dozen needles,. Fig. 197.—Schultzes pelvimeter. about 2 inches in length and straight or slightly curved, for suturing theperineum ; a few short curved needles, an inch to an inch and a quarter inlength, for use in the vagina ; a needle forceps; a knife for episiotomy ; steril-ized sutures of catgut, silkworm-gut, and of silk ; one or two hand-brushes ;a yard or two of iodoform or plain aseptic gauze for possible use in post-par-tum hemorrhage ; a set of Barnes bags; and a Schultze pelvimeter (Fig. 197).The additional instruments that will frequently be of service are a Simsspeculum, one or two sponge-holding forceps, a volsella, and a curette. Asmall spring-balance will be useful when it is desirable for scientific or otherreasons to know the weight of the child. 362 AMERICAN TEXT-BOOK OF OBSTETRICS. The bag should also be supplied with two or three ounces of chloroform,twice as much ether, a few ounces of carbolic acid, and a
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