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OBSTETRICAL NURSING
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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THE CARESS
From the painting by Gari Melchers
I hold you close: and I could cry
Because you seem so new and dear;
And such a helpless warder I
To keep your candle burning clear:
The curious candle of your breath,
Body’s and spirit’s throbbing breath.
Fanny Stearns Gifford.
OBSTETRICAL NURSING
A TEXT-BOOK ON THE NURSING CARE OF THE EXPECTANT MOTHER, THE WOMAN IN LABOR, THE YOUNG MOTHER AND HER BABY
BY
CAROLYN CONANT VAN BLARCOM, R.N.
Formerly, assistant superintendent and instructor in obstetrical nursing and the care of infants and children at the johns hopkins hospital training school for nurses
Author of
“The Midwife in England”
WITH 200 ILLUSTRATIONS AND 8 CHARTS
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1922
All rights reserved
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Copyright, 1922,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1922.
Press of
J. J. Little & Ives Company
New York, U. S. A.
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
TO THE
SPIRIT OF HELPFULNESS
WHICH HAS MADE ITS PREPARATION
POSSIBLE WITH THE HOPE THAT IT
MAY BE OF HELP TO THOSE NURSES
WHO TAKE YOUNG MOTHERS AND BABIES
INTO THEIR CARE.
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PREFACE
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