A textbook of obstetrics . without fetalheart-sounds or fetal movements usually mean the presence ofa dead fetus in utero. The most valuable sign of fetal death in lAhlfelds statistics, based on 653 labor-, show that pregnancy was ended in thethirty-eighth week in percent., in the thirty-ninth in per cent., in thefortieth in Per cent., and in tin- forty-first in 10 per cent, of the cases. :o6 Fig. [46 I, Photograph of a pregnant woman taken three calendar monthsfrom the first day of last menstruation; 2, 3, 4, same individual at fourth, fifth, and sixth lunar mont
A textbook of obstetrics . without fetalheart-sounds or fetal movements usually mean the presence ofa dead fetus in utero. The most valuable sign of fetal death in lAhlfelds statistics, based on 653 labor-, show that pregnancy was ended in thethirty-eighth week in percent., in the thirty-ninth in per cent., in thefortieth in Per cent., and in tin- forty-first in 10 per cent, of the cases. :o6 Fig. [46 I, Photograph of a pregnant woman taken three calendar monthsfrom the first day of last menstruation; 2, 3, 4, same individual at fourth, fifth, and sixth lunar months. THE DIAGNOSIS OF PREGNANCY. 207 5 J y 1 6 ?••??????•n^ -^F- ? I vl W< 7 _8^ Fig- 147 5, 6, 7, 8, Individual represented in figure 140, ph<seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth months. 208 PREGNANCY. pregnancy is the cessation of growth in the abdomen, which isdetermined by successive weekly measurements of the abdomenwith a tape-measure, care being exercised to ascertain on eachoccasion the maximum girth. If the fetus is alive, there is astead\- increase from week to week. If it is dead, there is noincrease in the abdominal measurements, and there may be adecrease. For a more extended account of the diagnosis offetal life and death the student is referred to the section on thediseases and death of the fetus. It is obvious that a diagnosis of life or death of the fetus isoften of great i
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