Maternal Mortality: The Risk of Death in Childbirth and From All Diseases Caused by Pregnancy and Confinement (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Robert Morse Woodbury

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0260022810 ISBN 13: 9780260022813

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Maternal Mortality: The Risk of Death in Childbirth and From All Diseases Caused by Pregnancy and Confinement

Deaths from puerperal causes include all those of which pregnancy and confinement are the only, or the decisive, cause. For example, they include deaths from hemorrhage and from other accidents of pregnancy; deaths from difficult labor (dystocia) deaths from puerperal convulsions, or toxemias of;pregnancy, and from puer eral infection. On the other hand, they 0 not include deaths res ting from accidents sustained by pregnant women if the accidents them selves were sufficient to cause death, nor do they include deaths resulting from criminal abortion.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0260022810
• ISBN 13: 9780260022813
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 171