| Following are four letters-to-the-editor that appeared in the British Medical Journal in 1944. They provide some sense of common attitudes about childbirth and what should be done with the umbilical cord. My sense is that tying the cord was thought of as something done after pulsations in it waned or ceased, and the main issue was sepsis. |
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| Price EW (1944) Why tie the cord? British Medical Journal 1944, June 3, p 772. |
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| Vaughan, K (1944) Why tie the cord? British Medical Journal 1944, July 8, p 58. |
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| Chesterman CC (1944) Why tie the cord? British Medical Journal 1944, July 22, p 125. |
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| Jackson GA (1944) Why tie the cord? British Medical Journal 1944, July 22, p 125. |
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