By coach to Whitehall with my wife (where she went to see Mrs. Pierce, who was this day churched, her month of childbed being out).
The so-called puerperal orchildbed fever is also nothing more nor less than an infection of purulent secretion.
These precautions will guard against the possibility of infection and the dangers of childbed fever, and the many different phases of inflammation which are the result of carelessness in the details of cleanliness.
It occurs very often as a part of the general inflammation produced by the absorption of putrid or septic matter during the childbed period.
I never can forget my first case of childbed fever.
This indicates a lack of cleanliness on the part of the attendants during confinement; inflammations of this nature constitute one of the types of puerperal or childbed fever.
He afterward married Catharine, the daughter of Captain Woodcock, of Hackney, who died in childbed within a year of their marriage.
Women in childbed were allowed to use strong drink as a stimulant, but only during the first days of their confinement.
Similarly some savages imagine that contact with a woman in childbedenervates warriors and enfeebles their weapons.
The Bribri Indians regard the pollution ofchildbed as much more dangerous even than that of menstruation.
In the Tyrol it is said that a woman in childbed should never take off her wedding-ring, or spirits and witches will have power over her.
But the secretion of childbed is particularly terrible when it is the product of a miscarriage, especially a concealed miscarriage.
I was very ill at the time, but everything was favourable until the third day I developed childbed fever.
She lay in the monastery and underwent her churching with them; she was attended in childbed by two midwives from the village.
Eudoxia ended her life and crimes in childbed on the 6th of October following, five days after a furious hail-storm had made a dreadful havoc in the city.
It has been declared by excellent authority, that the mortality of first labors, and of childbed fever following first labors is about twice the mortality attending all subsequent labors collectively.
A distinguished teacher of midwifery, Professor Pajot of Paris, says that when he sees one of those necks full in front, like that of Marie Antoinette, as shown in her portraits, he prepares himself to combat childbed convulsions.
The following year I lost my wife in childbed of her first child, who died with its mother.
The Duchess died in childbed on the 23rd of April following, and was followed to the grave five days after by her husband, who expiated with his life the dissolute vices in which he had continuously indulged.
A very large proportion of the febrile attacks which occur in childbed run an absolutely favorable course.
He also regards the prognosis as unfavorable when the disease occurs in childbed or a short time afterward.
Absorbent cotton covered with netting soaked in corrosive sublimate solution applied to external genitals during childbed period.
In a large class of cases, however, the connection between childbed fever and sepsis has been deduced rather from analogy than direct proof.
At these institutions, however, vaginal disinfection is vigorously resorted to during and immediately subsequent to labor, and during childbed some form of antiseptic pad over the vulva is employed.
The symptoms of blood-poisoning in the infectious diseases of childbed vary to a considerable extent according to the channel through which the septic germs enter the general circulation.
That by such precautions puerperal fever is destined to be erased from the list of dangerous diseases attacking the woman in childbed is saying more than is warranted.
The argument that the infectious diseases of childbedare of a septic nature can best be understood by presenting the proofs in their orderly sequence.
Childbed on the whole inclines to arousing the dormant inclination toward pulmonary consumption.
On the Nature, Signs, and Treatment of Childbed Fevers: in a Series of Letters addressed to the Students of his Class.
Meigs's volume which treats of Contagion in Childbed Fever.
If your sorrow be so great ouer sir Bologna, and if you feare your childbed wil be descried, why seeke you not meanes to attempt some voyage, for couering of the fact, to beguile the eyes of them whych so diligently do watch you?
When a woman dies in childbed in the island of Salsette, they put a nail or other piece of iron in the folds of her dress; this is done especially if the child survives her.
M95 Dangers apprehended from women in childbed by Indians and Esquimaux.
M98 Dangers apprehended from women in childbed by some tribes of Annam.
But the secretion of childbed is particularly terrible when it is the product of a miscarriage, especially a concealed miscarriage.
In the Ba-Pedi and Ba-Thonga tribes of South Africa a woman in childbed may not touch her food with her hands all the time of her seclusion; she must eat with the help of a wooden spoon.
M96 Dangers apprehended from women in childbed by Bantu tribes of South Africa.
A distinction I have ever paid to those worthy creatures who dies in childbed by me.
The spirits of slain men, unchaste women, and women who died in childbed were most dreaded.
For a nurse for the month, and the finest suit of childbed linen .
For a nurse for the month, and use of childbed linen .
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "childbed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: birth; childbearing; confinement; delivery; hatching; labor; parturition; stork; travail
