In the preceding chapters I have endeavored to describe
the details of treatment habitual among various people,
in the different stages of labor, especially the position occupied
by the parturient; and as a fitting close to this little
volume, I will now relate individual labor scenes among
Mongolians, Indians and Negroes, which may be regarded
as typical, so far as that is possible. And these will, I
trust, serve for the better understanding of the peculiarities
in the management of childbirth as customary among these
races.
