Birth Injuries of the Child (Classic Reprint)
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Author(s)Hugo Ehrenfest
PublisherForgotten Books
ISBN / ASIN1332134386
ISBN-139781332134380
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A serious charge against the present status of obstetrical practice was made in 1917 by Grace Meigs in her report on Maternal Mortality in the United States. "Every year at least 15,000 women die in the United States from conditions, almost entirely preventable, caused by childbirth." Ever since, this statement has been reiterated practically by every writer and speaker who felt that he could offer a valuable suggestion towards the betterment of this truly appalling situation. The stereotyped and almost exclusive use of this one argument in all the varied efforts to supply the women of this country with "better obstetrics" would seem to imply that conditions are satisfactory as far as the newborn infant is concerned.
Dr. Meigs has irrefutably demonstrated that up to 1913, childbirth has remained as hazardous to the mothers as it was in 1900. How about the danger of birth to the infant? How great is it? Is it increasing or decreasing? Where rests the responsibility for this risk? Can anything be done to reduce it? To answer these and many other questions pertaining to the serious problem of Birth Injuries of the Child is the purpose of the volume here presented.
Wider interest in the causation and prevention of parturitional injuries of the infant is of relatively recent date, but it is growing rapidly. This must have become evident to any one conversant with modern obstetrical literature. To-day we are facing the surprising fact that "in at least 40 percent of all autopsies, properly performed on all stillborn infants and those dying within the first few days after birth, intracranial traumatic lesions of some sort are discovered," while in official and unofficial tabulations of the causes of death in earliest infancy or of stillbirth "injury in birth" is assigned a most inconspicuous place. To quote but a few examples selected at random: Very exhaustive field studies have been made in various communities by the Children's Bureau concerning Infant Mortality. What do they show?
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A serious charge against the present status of obstetrical practice was made in 1917 by Grace Meigs in her report on Maternal Mortality in the United States. "Every year at least 15,000 women die in the United States from conditions, almost entirely preventable, caused by childbirth." Ever since, this statement has been reiterated practically by every writer and speaker who felt that he could offer a valuable suggestion towards the betterment of this truly appalling situation. The stereotyped and almost exclusive use of this one argument in all the varied efforts to supply the women of this country with "better obstetrics" would seem to imply that conditions are satisfactory as far as the newborn infant is concerned.
Dr. Meigs has irrefutably demonstrated that up to 1913, childbirth has remained as hazardous to the mothers as it was in 1900. How about the danger of birth to the infant? How great is it? Is it increasing or decreasing? Where rests the responsibility for this risk? Can anything be done to reduce it? To answer these and many other questions pertaining to the serious problem of Birth Injuries of the Child is the purpose of the volume here presented.
Wider interest in the causation and prevention of parturitional injuries of the infant is of relatively recent date, but it is growing rapidly. This must have become evident to any one conversant with modern obstetrical literature. To-day we are facing the surprising fact that "in at least 40 percent of all autopsies, properly performed on all stillborn infants and those dying within the first few days after birth, intracranial traumatic lesions of some sort are discovered," while in official and unofficial tabulations of the causes of death in earliest infancy or of stillbirth "injury in birth" is assigned a most inconspicuous place. To quote but a few examples selected at random: Very exhaustive field studies have been made in various communities by the Children's Bureau concerning Infant Mortality. What do they show?
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This 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.
