The Rational Puerperium
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Dr Haultain's " Plea for a Rational Puerperium," read before the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society last July (1), was concerned wholly with one event in that period?namely, the resumption of the erect posture by the lying-in patient. The claim was then made that recumbency after the third day and in an ordinary case was unnecessary, and that it was rational management to allow the puerperal woman to sit up in bed on the
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