All appreciable symptoms are absent, unless from the death of the fetus, or its interference with normal functions, general disorder and indications of parturition supervene.
The tension may lead to abortion, or a slow, laborious parturition may occur at the usual time.
Should parturition become inevitable, it may be favored and any necessary assistance furnished.
At the natural period ofparturition preparations are apparently made for that act.
When the period of parturition arrives, the first effort should be to return the fetus within the proper abdominal cavity, and this can sometimes be accomplished with the aid of a stout blanket gradually tightened around the belly.
The condition obstructs parturition by the feet becoming pressed against the floor of the pelvis or by the elbow pressing on its anterior brim.
Though far less frequently than in the case of the cow, parturition may not be completed at term, and the mare, to her serious and even fatal injury, may carry the foal in the womb for a number of months.
As the period ofparturition approaches, the swelling of the udder bespeaks the coming event, the engorgement in exceptional cases extending forward on the lower surface of the abdomen and even into the hind limbs.
As progress is made little by little the hand is slid down from the region of the knee to the fetlock, and finally that is secured and brought up into the passage, whenparturition will proceed without hindrance.
The accumulation of liquid in the abdominal cavity of the fetus is less frequent, but when present it may arrest parturition as completely as will hydrocephalus.
If parturition continues to make progress the displaced foot may bruise and lacerate the vagina.
When impregnation has occurred in the very young or in the dwarfed female there are two alternatives--to induce abortion or to wait until there are attempts at parturitionand to extract by embryotomy if impracticable otherwise.
This is best done before parturitionto secure healing before suckling begins.
For instance, if it happens that a young mother suffers much in her first confinement, at once the suggestion is made that a second parturition may prove fatal.
Premature labor is frequently induced in legitimate medical practice, for the purpose of avoiding the risks which in some cases attend parturition at term.
Some parturition rather, some solemn immortal birth; On the frontiers to eyes impenetrable, Some soul is passing over.
In one, the sacred parturition scene, A happy painless mother birth'd a perfect child.
As Owen has remarked, the benefit derived from the yielding of the separate pieces in the act of parturition by mammals, will by no means explain the same construction in the skulls of birds and reptiles.
She may be worked until within a fortnight of the time at which parturition is expected to occur.
Parturition should take place in a roomy, covered place, provided with abundance of clean litter.
After parturition some bran and liquid or semi-liquid food should be given to the sow.
From the Roman Empire in the East they seized the provinces of Syria and Palestine, with the famous cities of Damascus, Antioch, and Jerusalem.
It appears, though, that parturition is a function easily performed among them, and that it is unattended by the post-partum accidents common to civilization.
Having never witnessed the act of parturition in an Eskimo my knowledge of the subject is merely second-hand, and consequently not worth detailing.
But the fatal Seven turn to the seven fruits that charm away evil influences at parturition in Persia, also the Seven Wise Women of the same country traditionally present on holy occasions.
A variant, too, is the Persian custom of protecting a woman in parturition by spreading a table, with a lamp at each corner, with seven kinds of fruits and seven different aromatic seeds upon it.
The pains associated withparturition were actually beneficial, they said.
It does not always happen that the parturition is effected with ease.
When the period of parturition draws nigh, they dig a very deep burrow, furnished with a narrow opening, and therein securely deposit their young.
In most cases the parturition will be natural and easy, and the less the cow is disturbed or meddled with, the better.
This sometimes occurs during the throes in difficult cases of parturition in cows, and the aid of a skillful veterinary surgeon is requisite to replace the inverted bladder.
A moderately open state of the bowels is necessary at the period of parturition in the cow.
In cases of difficult parturition the aid of a skillful veterinary surgeon may be required.
A second edition of my little work being required at the expiration of only a few months is gratifying to me, as evidence that my views regarding the use of an Anodyne in Parturition have attracted considerable attention.
The following remarks on the administration of an anaesthetic agent duringparturition are reprinted from the Lancet.
It is improbable that she reproduced earlier in the season, for teats of mice that have reproduced earlier usually are enlarged to such a degree that previous parturition is clearly indicated.
B is the most complete, including data from the fifth day after parturition until the young were weaned on the thirty-third day after parturition.
D, the period of time covered by the 14 days when water and food consumption were measured includes times just prior to parturition and to weaning of the young.
Hence the difficulty of determining, under what class of diseases parturition should be arranged, consists in there being two kinds of diseased actions comprehended under one word; which have each their different proximate cause.
As parturition is a natural, not a morbid process, no medicine should be given, where there is no appearance of disease.
In difficult parturition it sometimes happens, that general convulsions are excited to relieve the pain of labour, instead of the exertions of those muscles of the abdomen and diaphragm, which ought to forward the exclusion of the child.
For this the operator had better dress as for a parturition case.
When the cow is spayed, it does away with all trouble attending estrum, or heat, gestation, and parturition with its accidents and ailments.
In this disease, even more than in difficult and protracted parturition or retained placenta, the attendants must carefully guard against the infection of their hands and arms from the diseased parts.
In all cases of delayed or tardy parturition the evacuation of rectum and bladder is important, and it is no less so in all difficult parturitions.
Exposure to cold or other cause of disturbance of the health may affect an organ so susceptible as this at the time of parturition so as to cause inflammation.
With the nose in the pelvis, it has only to be drawn forward and the parturition is natural.
If there is space to allow of the introduction of an embryotomy knife, the abdomen may be freely cut with this, when the fluid will escape into the womb and parturition may proceed naturally.
Curved cord-carrier, used in difficult parturition to carry a cord into regions which can not be reached by the arm.
Yet unless the calf is especially large and the pelvis of the cow narrow, parturition may usually be accomplished in this way spontaneously or with very little assistance in the way of traction on the limbs.
Jointed cord-carrier, used in difficult parturition to carry a cord into regions which can not be reached by the arm.
This has been known to occur in protracted parturition when the fetus finally passed while the bladder was full.
Another danger is that in case of a large rent the calf may escape into the cavity of the abdomen and parturition become impossible.
Whether we have not in this way created a tradition tending to delay parturition by a lunar month in many cases, is a problem that requires careful study.
Parturition usually takes place about the period of the recurrence of the menstrual molimina, or at least of that monthly cyclic feeling which many women experience, though there is no flow.
The due term of labor is past and as a consequence fetuses grow too large within the uterus, greatly increasing the difficulties of parturition and adding to the risk of both mother and child.
That children born to mothers suffering at the time of parturition from measles may yet escape it themselves is proven by the cases of Nelson and Gautier mentioned above.
But, according to my observations, an efflorescence occurring during the week following parturition is in most instances septic.
Others are globules of oil entering the torn veins when fat-tissue becomes crushed, or air-bubbles admitted through veins either wounded by instruments or opened after parturition by the dislodgment of their obstructing thrombi.
As has already been stated, age, sex, and parturition can be regarded as etiological factors only in so far as they favor the occurrence of accidental inoculation.
It is my peculiar gift from the Gods to afford such aid, and to stimulate the parturition of pregnant minds which cannot of themselves bring forth what is within them.
The young companions who frequent my society, often suffer long-continued pains of parturition night and day, before they can be delivered of what is within them.
Their time of parturition is in April, and though they are said to bring forth two young ones at a time,[26] yet I never saw more than one along with such as we killed.
According to Fabricius, their time of parturition is in the winter, and their number of young at a birth seldom exceeds two.
But it is far more common for the parturitionof the first, displaying signs of full maturity, to coincide with the birth of a second which is immature and which cannot sustain respiratory life.
Indeed, this valuable medicine not only relieves the distressing symptoms which frequently attend the pregnant state, but also prepares the system for the ordeal of parturition (delivery).
As Owen has remarked, the benefit derived from the yielding of the separate pieces in the act of parturition of mammals, will by no means explain the same construction in the skulls of birds.
Parturition is effected almost invariably without any difficulty, the umbilical cord is cut usually with a bamboo sliver, the mother sits up to prevent a reflux of the afterbirth into the womb, the child is washed, and the operation is over.
She may be visited by her friends, who, however, must leave her when parturitiontakes place.
The pregnant females take to the rough ice, where deep snowbanks have been formed by the winter gales, and dig large excavations, in which parturition takes place.
