Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The American Gynaecological and Obstetrical Journal, Vol. 19: July-December, 1901
He quotes from Naegele that there is no error in Nature to be compared with this, for the very action she 'uses to bring the child into the world is that by which she destroys both it and its mother.
It was long a recognized fact that severe hemorrhages occurred when the placenta presented at the os uteri before the birth of the child. Hippocrates stated that the after-burden should come forth after the child, for if it comes first, the child cannot live, because he takes his life from it, as a plant does from the earth.
The true conditions existing in placental presentation were not recognized. It was the accepted Opinion that the after-birth had become detached from its normal fundal position and slipped down to the os uteri where it lay unattached.
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