The Physiological Argument in Obstetric Studies and Practice (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Physiological Argument in Obstetric Studies and PracticeI beg to maintain that, in the present age, and among civil ized communities, a case Of perfectly natural labor must be, in great part, a hypothetical case or rather, it must be a case made up, SO to speak, of fragments of normality, some taken from one woman, and some from others, which, when properly put together, reproduce the ideal type of a perfect specimen now almost extinct, just as the archeologist puts together the fossil bones of an extinct animal, and, adding to them what his knowledge teaches him is missing, at last reproduces some ancestral form that has long ceased to exist. When we con sider the numerous influences and disturbing factors which sociai customs impose upon the female, with regard to the whole process of reproduction, we cannot be surprised to find perfectly natural cases extremely rare. And as such disturb ing causes are more frequently present than absent, it cannot by any means be just to judge of normality simply by frequency of occurrence, as is usually done.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.