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          id: 34436
      author: Morant, George
       title: Hints to Husbands: A Revelation of the Man-Midwife's Mysteries
        date: None
       words: 35457
      flesch: 53
     summary: Females, he alleges, are incompetent; and these assertions of physicians have influenced the minds of females to such an extent, that they are forcibly impressed with the belief that there are no others competent; and when it is proposed to many women to employ a midwife, they appear to shrink with horror, and many even suppose that in trusting themselves to the most accomplished female accoucheur, they jeopardize their lives.... Many women will lack the necessary amount of nerve; but many men lack it also.
    keywords: art; birth; cases; child; country; day; delivery; doctor; examination; female; labour; life; man; midwifery; midwives; mind; modesty; moral; nature; number; page; patient; persons; physicians; practice; present; profession; roussel; sex; speculum; state; time; treatment; use; women; work
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        item: #2 of 3
          id: 40654
      author: Rigby, Edward
       title: A System of Midwifery
        date: None
       words: 232260
      flesch: 56
     summary: The most practical arrangement of these symptoms will, we think, be under the two following heads: those which occur _before_ labour, and those which occur _during_ labour. The symptoms of the child's death, which are usually enumerated as occurring _before_ labour, are, cessation of the child's movements; the abdomen undergoes no farther increase of size, but rather diminishes; the uterus has no longer the tense elastic feel of pregnancy, but becomes flaccid and moveable; the patient has a sensation of coldness and weight in the abdomen, so that when she turns from one side to the other, she feels as if a heavy weight rolled over to that part of the abdomen which is lowest; the breasts are flabby, and sometimes there is a fetid slimy discharge from the vagina.
    keywords: abdomen; action; appearance; blood; body; bowels; cases; cause; cavity; changes; character; child; circulation; circumstances; condition; contraction; convulsions; cord; course; degree; difficulty; direction; disease; effects; expulsion; extent; fact; fever; finger; foetus; forceps; form; fundus; general; great; hand; head; hæmorrhage; inflammation; labour; left; liquor; little; means; membranes; midwifery; moment; months; mother; nature; operation; os uteri; ovum; pain; parts; pass; patient; pelvis; period; placenta; point; portion; position; pregnancy; present; pressure; process; produce; pulse; quantity; right; second; size; species; state; subject; surface; symptoms; system; time; treatment; upper; uteri; uterus; vagina; vessels; viz; women
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        item: #3 of 3
          id: 7129
      author: Slemons, J. Morris (Josiah Morris)
       title: The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy
        date: None
       words: 85280
      flesch: 58
     summary: HABITUAL MISCARRIAGE.--Experience teaches that women who have had one miscarriage must be more careful than other prospective mothers if they would escape a repetition of the accident. The really important changes in the body, other than those pertaining to the uterus, are familiar to women who have passed through pregnancy; but other prospective mothers may not understand that they will regain the bodily condition which existed before conception.
    keywords: bed; birth; blood; body; cases; cause; changes; child; conditions; course; day; delivery; development; diet; embryo; end; fact; fetus; food; hand; infant; labor; matter; means; milk; miscarriage; months; mother; number; nurse; nursing; ovum; patient; period; physician; place; pregnancy; prospective; time; use; uterus; water; way; weeks; womb; women
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