OF LABOR. 



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TABLE L 



DIVISION OF LABORS. 



BAUDELOCaUE. 



5 Classes. 



1. Natural labors. Re- 

 quiring no assistance. 



2. Preternatural labors. 

 Requiring the use of 

 the hand. 



3. Laborious labors. 

 Requiring the use of 

 instruments. 



f I. Positions of the vertex. 



i 2. Positions of the feet. 

 .3. Positions of the knees. 

 4. Positions of the breech. 



L Faulty positions. 



2- Accidents during labor. 



L Faults of the female organs. 



2. Monstrosity of the fcetus. 



3. Want of power of the organs. 



MM. Dubois and] 



Desormeaux. '.Like those of Baudelocque. Presentations of the face are 

 Mesd. BoiviN and [ classed among the natural labors. 



Lachapelle. J 



The Author. 

 2 Classes. 



i 1. The vertex, i 

 rl. Eutocia. ^2. The face. } 

 f 3. The pelvis. ^ 

 ("L Hemorrhagic. 



12. Convulsive. 

 3. Aneurismal. 

 4. Hernial. 

 5. With procidentia. 

 [^2. Dystocia, ■{ 6. From disease of the J- 

 woman. 



7. From narrowness of 

 the pelvis. 



8. From wrong positions. 

 [_9. From exhaustion, &c. 



All labors that terminate 

 spontaneously. 



1 



AU labors re- 

 quiring as- 

 sistance. 



ARTICLE L 



Of Labor in General. 



644. Labor is said to be at term or timely if it takes place at the 

 ninth month of pregnancy; tardy or retarded, if the pregnancy ex- 

 tends beyond this period; advanced, hastened, precocious ov prema- 

 ture, if it takes place between the seventh and the ninth months; 

 and it is called miscarriage or abortion if it occur previously to the 

 seventh month. As it is in some sort produced by the same causes, 

 and accompanied with the same phenomena in all cases, I shall first 

 examine it in a general manner before entering into the details upon 

 each class in particular. 



