Towards the doctrine of the retention and augmentation of the placenta

Abstract

Childbirth is a pure physiological act, which in the vast majority of cases nature brings to the end with its own efforts. The role of an obstetrician should only be to observe the wise actions of nature, and occasionally to help her in cases where childbirth takes an unnatural course that threatens the life of the mother or fetus. Our help, aimed at preserving these two lives, must be strictly justified, deeply thought out, decisive and quick. It seems that nowhere is the classical admonition so appropriate: "priusquam incipias consulto et ubi consulueris, —maturo facto opus est."

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