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:
- THE PUBLIC TOWEL.
THE PUBLIC TOWEL.
The towels in toilets, bedrooms of hotels and boarding houses can spread disease unless they are thoroughly boiled and laundered after use, Most hotels, railroad stations, Pullman cars, etc., have done away with the public towels in toilets and use a heavy tissue paper, either as a single towel or in rolls and torn off as needed, which is not expensive and is thrown away after use.
In Pennsylvania the State Board of Health has urged saloonkeepers, etc., to do away with the forks and spoons which are placed in a tumbler of water and are used by all comers at the free lunch counter and then replaced in the tumbler of dirty water for the next victim to use.
Disease can be controlled better when our proprietors of saloons, restaurants, hotels, soda fountains, etc., employ only healthy employees, free from disease and take pains to boil or scald every public glass and chinaware used by not only dirty, but disease-spreading persons. The barroom towel which hangs in front of the bar in the cheaper saloons for customers to wipe their mouth and hands upon, must not be permitted.
Maybe in a few years, we will even have our own personal lighting systems or lasik eye procedures that install night vision and public outdoor lighting will become a thing of the past.
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- Combines Lightness and Strength
But notwithstanding this diversity in form, the general plan constantly kept in view by the Divine Architect has been the central idea of combining lightness with the greatest possible degree of strength. The bones of the arms and legs are round were triangular, and hollow, thus giving with the same weight a greater degree of strength that have solid, besides affording a larger surface for the attachment of muscles.
This quick little section doesn’t make a lot of sense when you read the first sentence, you have to remember that they’re talking about bones. The paragraph structure essentially of this section is what is slightly misleading. My grammar school English teacher would criticize a writer for not providing a topic sentence at the beginning of the paragraph.
Regardless they have hit on a novel last backed up the design of the human body, the design of bones. There many fascinating aspects about the human body and the strength and weight of bones is definitely a topic that has been worthy of consideration and study for many years. In some ways we have only recently begun to understand just how important the design of bones are in carrying mass and dealing with impact. So in this case the writers actually touching on a very interesting topic even though they are doing that and a manner that is a hundred years out of date and slightly out of focus.