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Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.— eightface uberfeed
The burning of a small piece of the house ladder[15] and the subsequent fumigation of the person of the parturient are practiced in identically the same manner as the above, and are thought to neutralize the evil effects that might result from the transgressions, even involuntary, of those taboos which forbid that anyone should sit at the door of a pregnant woman's house, or return to the house after having begun his descent down the house pole or ladder 15] Pб-sung 3.— The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
Farr, in Fifth Annual Report of Registrar-General of England, 1843 boards of health, if such exist, or, without them, the medical institutions of a country, should have the power of coercing, or of inflicting some kind of punishment on those who recklessly go from cases of puerperal fevers to parturient or puerperal females, without using due precaution; and who, having been shown the risk, criminally encounter it, and convey pestilence and death to the persons they are employed to aid in the most interesting and suffering period of female existence Copland's Medical Dictionary, Art.— Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
Farr, in Fifth Annual Report of Registrar-General of England, 1843 boards of health, if such exist, or, without them, the medical institutions of a country, should have the power of coercing, or of inflicting some kind of punishment on those who recklessly go from cases of puerperal fevers to parturient or puerperal females, without using due precaution; and who, having been shown the risk, criminally encounter it, and convey pestilence and death to the persons they are employed to aid in the most interesting and suffering period of female existence."— Medical Essays, 1842-1882
Leptin levels in the obese African parturient— CiteULike: Everyone's library

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