 | Medicine - 1871 - 644 pages
...shorter than has been generally taught. To calculate the time of delivery the plan is simply as follows: Find the day on which the female ceased to menstruate,...being what she calls well. Take that day nine months forwards as 275 days, unless February is included, in which case it is taken as 273 days. To this add... | |
 | Edinburgh Obstetrical Society - Obstetrics - 1872 - 488 pages
...the first edition of my work on Fecundity already referred to. The plan is simply as follows : — Find the day on which the female ceased to menstruate,...being what she calls "well." Take that day nine months forwards as 275 days, unless February is included, in which case it is taken as 273 days. To this add... | |
 | Children - 1873 - 556 pages
...method : — Find the day on which menstruation ceased, take that day nine months forwards as 275 days, unless February is included, in which case it is taken as 273, to this add three days in the former case, or five if February is in the count, to make up the 278... | |
 | William Smoult Playfair - Labor (Obstetrics) - 1876 - 630 pages
...greater average of success in his predictions than on any other plan. His rule is as follows : — " Find the day on which the female ceased to menstruate,...forward as 275, unless February is included, in which <ase it is taken as 273 days. To this add three days in the former case, or five if February is in... | |
 | Medicine - 1876 - 832 pages
...Dr. Mathew Duncau is recommended as being more successful than that of others. It is as follows : " Find the day on which the female ceased to menstruate,...calls ' well.' Take that day nine months forward as two hundred and seventy-five, unless February is included, in which case it is taken as two hundred... | |
 | George Black (M.D.) - 1880 - 178 pages
...the first day of her being again well, and is described in his own words, as follows : — " Taking that day nine months forward as 275, unless February is included, in which case it is taken as 273. To this add three days in the former case, or five, if February is in the count, to make up the 278.... | |
 | Rodney Glisan - 1881 - 700 pages
...Duncan, who has investigated this subject more fully than almost any one else. His directions are : " Find the day on which the female ceased to menstruate,...calls ' well.' Take that day nine months forward as two hundred and seventyfive days, unless February is included, in which case it is taken as two hundred... | |
 | Samuel Nall - Obstetrics - 1883 - 160 pages
...consists in taking 278 days from the day on which the last menses ceased, and is as follows : — ' Find the day on which the female ceased to menstruate,...in which case it is taken as 273 days. To this add thre« days in the former case, or five if February is in the count, to make up the 278. This 278th... | |
 | William Smoult Playfair - Midwifery - 1884 - 448 pages
...a greater average of success in his predictions than on any other plan. His rule is as follows : ' Find the day on which the female -ceased to menstruate,...first day of being what she calls •"well." Take that da}- nine months forward as 275, unless February is included, in which case it is taken as 273 days.... | |
 | William Smoult Playfair - 1885 - 712 pages
...had a greater average of success in his predictions than on any other plan. His rule is as follows: "Find the day on which the female ceased to menstruate, or the first day of being what she culls ' well.' Take that day nine months forward as 275, unless February is included, in which case... | |
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Take that day nine months forward as 275, unless February is included, in which 
