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Art. XIII.-Notes on practical midwifery

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Reference

  1. Dublin Medical Journal, Vol. xvii.

Reference

  1. See various papers by the author, published in the Cork Medical Society’s transactions, Dublin Quarterly Journal.

References

  1. See paper On the Use of the Forceps by the author.-Dublin Quarterly Journal.

  2. This child was not weighed, but I subsequently delivered the same lady, with the long forceps, of a child which weighed 121/2lbs.-Ibid.

Reference

  1. The particulars of this interesting case have been published.-Dublin Quarterly Journal.

References

  1. Quoted from Dr. Murphy’s Midwifery, p. 275.

  2. Quoted from a paper by Dr. Sinclair, Dublin Quarterly Journal, Aug., 1861, p. 60.

  3. Quoted from a paper by Dr. Halahan, Dublin Quarterly.

  4. See paper by Dr. Hamilton, of Falkirk, in the 2nd vol. Medico Chirurgical Review for 1853.

Reference

  1. See the statistics of Dublin Lying-in Hospital, as quoted by Drs. Johnston and Sinclair, and the result of the present practice compared with that of former years when the forceps was little used. See also the result of Dr. Hamilton’s practice, before referred to; of Dr. Lawrence, of Montrose; of Dr. Ryan, of Dublin; of Dr. Beatty, quoted by Churchill; of Mr. Crosse; of Professor Simpson, Dublin Quarterly Journal, August, 1861, p. 60; of Dr. Swayne, British Medical Journal, September 6,1862, & c, & c, all of whose practice is very different to that recommended by Ramsbotham and Murphy, the former of whom lays down, among his rules for the application of the forceps-“Countenance anxious; pulse 120, 130, or 140; white slimy or dry brown tongue; great tenderness of uterus; green discharge; heat and tumefaction of vagina,” and perhaps “head locked for four hours, and made no progress for six or eight; coffee-ground vomiting; hurried breathing; delirium, or coldness of extremities, all of which would warrant us in applying the forceps, even if labour had not lasted twenty-four hours, or even twelve.” It must be hard labour, indeed, that would cause these symptoms; and it would be difficult to save the life of the patient if the practitioner was hard-hearted enough to allow them to commence.

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  1. Wm. J. Cummins M.D., Licentiate of the King and Queen’s College of Physicians, Physician to the Cork Dispensary
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Cummins, W.J. Art. XIII.-Notes on practical midwifery . Dub.Quart.J.Med.Sci. 39, 283–294 (1865). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02955741

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