This beautiful and effective plate shows the natural position of the child at the time of birth. It is technically called the presentment of the fœtus for birth. Of the presentment's there are many varieties, whose study is most interesting to the obstetrician. Some of them give rise to very difficult and dangerous delivery. When the presentment is natural, as in the figure, the comfort of the mother is increased and the doctor's anxiety is modulated.
First off, the plate that this section refers to is located in our section on chart 2. Here is the specific picture in question.
Second,that lasthave sense that talks about the anxiety of the doctor, I think that could be misconstrued a couple different ways. It could appear that the author is more worried about the doctor than the mother. That was my initial interpretation.
It could also be, that the author was trying to tell the reader, that it's okay to be anxious or you should be anxious if the fetus is not in the ideal position at childbirth.This could be some sort of hidden warning.It could also be something to tell doctors to relax if things are lined up correctly.
At this time, most babies were delivered at home.If a doctor was present, that was actually something.There really wasn't a great deal that they could do though if things went seriously wrong.
In our modern era we are so used to having medical professionals on hand to cover every little thing from corrective eye surgery to a nose job and we don't think about these things. Furthermore, medical services of the specialized nature are becoming close in common. If I need to find a charlotte cosmetic dentist to fix my smile, I can drive 20 miles down the road and find one.
Back then, you are doing good field drive a buggy 20 miles down the road to find a general practice doctor.
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- Saline Impurity
Saline Impurity. — But any quantity of saline impurity exceeding thirty-five grains to the gallon renders a water unfit for the freest domestic use. Such water would be popularly designated as a very “hard” water, but a good deal of in difference is caused by the nature of the hardness, that due to sulfate of lime, and called the permanent hardness because it is not removable by boiling, being decidedly most prejudicial to health.
Okay so I’m going to admit freely that have no idea what this last paragraph was about. I understand what saline solution is, and I understand what hard water is. But I do not understand how the two come together in this particular paragraph and what it might mean even in the context of the previous paragraph in section. I think progress like this that I wish I had found a 100-year-old golf digest talking about golf bags and techniques as opposed to a medical journal.
- Muscles of the Eye
Muscles of the Eye.-I’m turning the flap we see four of the six delicate, who with all strong muscles which I would hold I firmly in its bony orbit, but also moved upward toward the canopied vaults of heaven, downward to view the beauties of nature on earth; or sideways to the right or left, Spain have to horizon at a single glance! The next illustration gives us a graphic and faithful to limitation of the beautiful arrangements of the numerous curtains, humors, lenses, pigments, membranes, nervous coats and blood vessels which enter into the composition of this remarkable organ, each of which is exquisitely adapted to the respective functions has to perform.
As you can tell, we are getting back on track with this effort after a couple month hiatus mostly do to (ironically) poor health. No other projects are going to slow us down and we now have a promoter that will even help us hire more transcriptionists as we cover Wilmington real estate.
- Wonderful It All Is
Wonderful It All Is.–Wonderful! Within us is an Almighty Architect, who superintends a thousand skilled laborers, that make a way which puzzles human comprehension; theory fiber of muscle; they are a filament of nerve; here constructing a bone; they are uniting attendant — fashioning each with the most scrupulous care and unerring nicety. Without the buzz of a saw, or the sound of a hammer; without the slightest compression, or the least particle of boys; with a regularity, certainty and exactness, the glorious temple of man, in the image of his Creator, goes up and up, day by day, skilfully put together by these noiseless, tireless and expert workman.
First off it like to point out that this section utilizes the words “superintends” and it spells the words ’skilfully’ with one ‘l’ in skill. These two spelling items or word usages seem to be a good illustration of the change of spelling and vocabulary over a hundred years. I’ve read thousands of books never seen the word superintends in print before. I’ve never seen the word skillfully printed with one L. either.
Second, this section is definitely full of nonsecular references. It’s the closing paragraph of this particular section that was several pages long covering the digestive apparatus and its wonders. This section seems to have included more information about the wonders than the actual digestive apparatus, which would have been suitable for a Bible but not necessarily for a medical textbook.
Finally this section has a number of crazy references again which seems to capitalize on the last two or three sections that were full of gibberish that were put there for no apparent purpose whatsoever other than to fill pages with print.