Abstract
This chapter focuses on the therapy and prognosis of pregnancy. It also discusses mechanical and pharmaceutical treatment. The midwife among the Masai in East Africa follows quite a rational procedure. At the beginning of the last month of pregnancy, she examines the pregnant woman several times to discover by palpating the body the position of the child. The most favorable position is considered the head presentation; and should the necessity arise, she tries to bring about this position by massage. Japanese illustrations, however, show that the massage of pregnant women is also carried out in a squatting position. In many nations, however, people go much further with those mechanical aids that are supposed to prepare a successful confinement and even introduce the practice of artificially enlarging the birth passage. Occasionally, in China, bleeding is performed during pregnancy, an operation that was first introduced into China by missionaries, and was therefore called the foreigners' specific.
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