Habek Dubravko, Dokozić Domagoj, Lukić Sani
Klinika za ginekologiju i porodnistvo Klinicke bolnice Sveti Duh, Zagreb.
Lijec Vjesn. 2010 Nov-Dec;132(11-12):376-80.
Baptism of necessity of life-threatened newborns was proclaimed by church law and related midwifery regulations from the second half of the 16th century. Midwives were for centuries the only lay persons attending the pregnant woman, parturient woman and newborn, so they were obliged to baptize newborns with life-threatening conditions, which were rather common and associated with high mortality in those times. Medical historiography has demonstrated this obligation of midwives in the town of Bjelovar and its surroundings, where parish registers of births, marriages and deaths contain data on numerous newborns baptized out of necessity.
自16世纪下半叶起，教会法及相关助产规定宣布对有生命危险的新生儿进行必要的洗礼。几个世纪以来，助产士是唯一照顾孕妇、产妇和新生儿的非专业人员，因此她们有义务为处于生命危险状况的新生儿施洗，这种情况在当时相当普遍且死亡率很高。医学史学已经证明了比耶洛瓦尔镇及其周边地区助产士的这一义务，那里的出生、婚姻和死亡教区登记册包含了许多因必要而受洗的新生儿的数据。
