PARTURITION.
What are labor pains?--Stages of labor--Bag of waters--Necessary
preparations--Directions for making the bed--Management during
the first stage--Meddlesome midwifery--Cutting the cord--A
new heresy--No child should be washed as soon as it is born--Delivery
of the after-birth--Should the bandage be applied?--Castor
oil--Rest, the best remedy 174-182