INDEX to the Article PARTURITION. 
-KE, a remarkable monfter, 690. 
Abortion, or premature labour, to 
avoid a greater evil, 692 ; a fuccefsful 
cafe, 693. 
Abftinence, to prevent the growth of the 
fetus, 692. 
JEgineta, one of the firft male practition¬ 
ers, 666. 
Aetius, 663 ; a confiderable writer on par¬ 
turition, 665. 
Albucafis, an Arabian writer, 666. 
Amand, his method of extracting with a 
net, 669. 
Ariftotle’s Midwifery, 665 ; written by 
Dr. Salmon, 669. 
Arm-prefentations, 686, 7. 
Afpafia, a writer on parturition, 663. 
Avicenna, 664 ; a good writer on parturi¬ 
tion, 666. 
Bathing and anointing, the chief helps, an¬ 
ciently, in difficult labours, 664. 
Breads of women after delivery, 71X; 
treatment of the milk'-abfcefs, 712, 13 ; 
breaft-pump, 713. 
Breech-prefentations, 685. 
Csfarian feftion, 692; ancient praCtice, 
695 ; curious cafes, 696 ; why more ufed, 
and more fuccefsful on the continent, 
ibid ; directions for performing it, 697 ; 
fuccefs f ul cafe, 698. 
Cellos, his directions for the delivery of 
dead children, 665. 
Chamberlen, inventor of the forceps, 668. 
Chapman’s Treatife on the Improvement 
ot Midwifery, 669. 
Child with two heads, 676 ; diffeClion of, 
677 ; wjth two bodies, 690. 
China, parturition early ftudied there, 666. 
Cijeopatra, a writer on parturition, 663. 
Cor.queft, Dr. his opinion as to fuperfeta- 
tion, 682 ; his craniotomy-forceps, 693. 
Convulfioos, or epileptic fits, attending la¬ 
bour, 705 ; mode of treatment, 705, 6. 
Craniotomy forceps, advantage of, over the 
crotchet, 693, 4 ; 718. 
Croft (Dr.) his unfortunate exit, 710. 
Crotchet, improved by Mefnard, 670; its 
ufe, 693, 4; propofed to be fet afide, 718. 
Culpeper, phyfician and. aftrologer, 668; 
his Directory for Midwives, and other 
works, 669. 
Denman’s three ftages of labour, 671 ; his 
fyfte-m of fpontaneous evolution, 688 j 
thinks the fymphyfis pubis ftretches at the 
time of parturition, 691. 
Deventer, an eminent Dutch accoucheur,669. 
Ear-prefentations, 6E6. 
Embryotomy, 692 ;the operation defcribed, 
694 ; fometimes impracticable, ibid. 
Emotions of the mind, 710, 712. 
Ergot of rye, for haftening labour, 678 ; 
its peculiar aCtion, 679. 
Extra-uterine geftation, 69S, 9. 
Fainting, ufeful in fome cafes of haemorr¬ 
hage, 709. 
Feet-prefentaticns and deliveries not un¬ 
known to the ancients, 670; both feet, 
C84 ; one foot, 685. 
Fevers attendant on parturition, 674. 
Fillet, a very ancient affiftant in difficult la¬ 
bour, firft mentioned-by Avicenna, 664 ; 
Dr. M.erriman’s account of the ule of it, 
717 - »8. • ' 
Flooding, or haemorrhage, 706-9. 
Fcetus, weight and meafure of, 671. 
Forceps, invented by Dr. Chamberlen, 668 j 
how to be applied, 683 ; farther de¬ 
fcribed, with oirefitions for ufing it, 716, 
ij ; long forceps, 717. 
Forfter, Elizabeth, curious inftance of de- 
iermed pelvis from foftnefs of bones, 697. 
Funis, fometimes gets round the child’s ' 
neck, 673, 677 ; how to tie and cut, 674; 
fometimes too fhort, 677 ; prefentation of, 
689. 
Galen, 663 ; wrote commentaries upon 
Hippocrates, but affumed to himfelf the 
difcoveries of Rufus and Herophilus, G65. 
Haighton, Dr. his improved forceps, 693 ; 
his Inquiry concerning the Csefarian ope¬ 
ration, 695, 6. 
Head, wrong prefentation of, 685 ; in va¬ 
rious pofitions, 636 . 
Heifter’s Treatife on Surgery, 670. 
Hemorrhage from the uterus, 706 ; after 
parturition, 708 ; general treatment, 709. 
Hernia of the uterus, 703. 
Hippocrates, the practice in his time, as de¬ 
fcribed in his chief works, 664. 
Hogben’s divifionof the ftages of labour, 671. 
Jaundice, or yellow-gum, 71 5. 
Infant, treatment of, 713 ; if ftill-'oorn or 
weakly, 7 14. 
Inftruments for difficult labours, 666, 715- 
18 ; Chamberlen’s forceps, and Roon- 
huyfen’s lever, 663 , 683 ; decried by 
fome of the early practitioners, 669; im¬ 
proved by Mefnard and Smellie, 670; 
farther improved, 716; caution againft 
the too frequent ufe or them, ibid; in- 
ftrument for returning the funis, 689; 
for meafuring the pelvis, 692 ; for le- 
turning an inverted uterus, 703. 
Lever, firft called Roonhuyfen’s fecret, 683; 
farther defcribed, 716. 
Manningham, 669 ; eftabliffies the firft ly¬ 
ing-in hofpitaj, 670. 
Maubray, the firft teacher of midwifery in 
England, 669. 
Mauriceau, his writings on parturition, 668. 
Men firft employed as accoucheurs in 
France, 670. 
Menage, curious anecdote related by him, 
682. 
Mercatus, a Spanilh practitioner, 667. 
Mercurialis (Hieronymus), his praCtice, 
664. 
Mefnard, improves the crotchet, 670. 
Midwives now properly inftruCted, 670, 1. 
Milk-abfcefs, 712 ; Dr. Burne’s treatment, 
7 I 3 - 
Milk-fever, feldom dangerous, 674. 
Moilities odeum, a dreadful difeafe, 691; 
Mrs. Fofter’s cafe, 697. 
Monftrofity, 676, 690. 
Nipples, why fiat and imperfeCtly formed 
in young women, 713. 
Opium, fometimes ufeful in hemorrhage, 
709. 
Oribafius, wrote but little on parturition, 
665. 
Ofborne, Dr. his explanation of the fecond 
ftage of natural parturition, 673; men¬ 
tions the expulfion of fix ova at once, 
681; a great opponent of the ctefarian 
fedion, 696. 
Ould (Sir Fielding), 670. 
Ovarium, enlarged, an obftruCtion to deli¬ 
very, 700 ; wanting, 704, 5. 
Pains, genuine and fpuriousp 672. 
Pare, Ambrofe, an eminent French accou¬ 
cheur, and great improver of midwifery, 
667. 
Parturition, how effected, probably, and by 
women only, in very remote times, 663 ; 
in the time of Hippocrates, 664 ; of Cel- 
fus and Galen, 663 ; of Avicenna and 
the other Arabians, and in China, in re¬ 
mote times, 666 ; in the fixteenth cen¬ 
tury, when men began to practife-, 667; 
in the feventeenih, 668 ; modern prac¬ 
tice, 699. Natural parturition, 671 ; af. 
ter-treatment, 674; fingular cuftons, 
675; protraded labour, 675,6; plu: a! 
births, 679-682 ; fuperfetation, 682, 3. 
Preternatural labours, 683-709 ; influ¬ 
enced by the emotions of the mind, 709 5 
after-management, 709. 
Pelvimeter, 692. 
Pel vis, its malcon formation not confidered 
in ancient times, 664; fometimes too 
large, 690 ; more frequently too fmall, 
or diftorted, 691; form and dimenfions, 
691; diftortions of, 691, 2; meafure- 
roent of, 692 ; curious inftances of de¬ 
formed, 697. 
Perforator, 693 ; farther defcribed, 718. 
Placenta, management of, forms the fourth 
Urge of parturition, 473, 4 ; its fituation 
caufing hemorrhage, 707. 
Plato, his curious account of the aCtion of 
the uterus, 665. 
Plugging, in cafes of uterine haemorrhage, 
709 - 
Plural births, 679-81; very curious in¬ 
ftances, 682; to which we may ad«i, that 
in April 1821, in the neighbourhood of 
DunkerLn, the wife of P. O’Felan, was 
delivered of four fons and a daughter, all 
living, and, tho’delicate, likely-to live ; 
the mother is as well as can be expected. 
Sixteen months before, file had two daugh¬ 
ters and one fon at a birth. 
Prefentations, unnatural, of the lower ex¬ 
tremities, 684; of the upper extremities, 
685 ; back, belly, Tides, or funis, 689. 
Puerperal fever, 674 ; fometimes infectious, 
^ 75 - 
Rachitis, or rickets, 691. 
Rhazes, an Arabian phyfician, 666. 
Rhodes, Martha, curious cafe of deformed 
pelvis, 697. 
Rhodion, his work De Partu, 667 ; in con- 
ftant ufe for a hundred years, 668. 
Rocheus, a French writer on parturition, 
667. 
Roonhuyfen’s lever, 668. 
Rouffet’s cafes of caefarian feCtion, 695. 
RuefF, a Swifs writer and practitioner, 667. 
Rufus Ephefus, an early writer on mid¬ 
wifery, 665. 
Salmon^ (Dr.), author of Ariftotle’s Mid¬ 
wifery, 669. 
Secundines, ancient directions for extraCt- 
_ ing, 664. 
Sigaultian operation, 693, 4, 5. 
Simfon’s Syftem of the Womb, 669. 
Smellie, his excellent works, and good ad¬ 
vice, 670. 
Spachius’s account of writers on parturi¬ 
tion during the fixteenth century, 667. 
Spontaneous evolution, 688. 
Stages of labour, as given by different au. 
thors: Firft ftage, 671; fecond, 672; third 
and fourth, 673.. ’ 
Still-born children, 714. 
Suckling, recommended toall mothers, 712. 
Superfetation, apparent inftances of, 682. 
Symphyfis pubis, whether yielding or un. 
yielding, 691 ; propofal for feparating it 
in fome cafes, 693. 
Turning, that operation explained, 687, §, 
Twin-cafes, 679 ; management of* 680. 
Vectis, or lever, 683, 716. 
Uterus, curious account of it by Plato, 66;; 
tumours in, 700 ; lacerated, 701 ; inver¬ 
ted, 70x, 2 ; amputation of, 703 ; im¬ 
perforate, and abfent, 704. 
Waddington, Margaret, has five children 
at a birth, 681. 
Wiilughby, Dr. account of the practice in 
his time, 663 . 
INDEX 
