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Title: A textbook of obstetrics
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Hirst, Barton Cooke, 1861-1935
Subjects: Obstetrics
Publisher: Philadelphia : Saunders
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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wentieth week in primigrav-idae, in the twenty-first and twenty-second weeks in multigravidae.But this symptom is exceptionally observed as early as thethirteenth or fifteenth week, and some women do not notice ittill the seventh month. Diagnosis of the Life or Death of the Fetus.—The fetaiheart-sounds are a most valuable sign of fetal life when they canbe heard. Positive knowledge on the part of the patient of fetalmovements is also of great value, and if the movements can befelt, seen, or heard by the physician, there is, of course, positiveevidence of fetal life. All the signs of pregnancy without fetalheart-sounds or fetal movements usually mean the presence ofa dead fetus in ntcro. The most valuable sign of fetal death in 1 Ahlfelds statistics, based on 653 labors, show that pregnancy was ended in thethirty-eighth week in 15,93 percent., in the thirty-ninth in 27.56 per cent., in thefortieth in 26.19 per cent., and in the forty-first in 10 per cent, of the cases. 206 PREGNANCY.
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Fig. 146—1, Photograph of a pregnant woman taken three calendar monthsfrom the first day of last menstruation; 2, 3, 4, same individual at fourth, fifth,and sixth lunar months. THE DIAGNOSIS OF PREGNANC\, 207

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