Manual external compression of the bladder to aid in expulsion of urine.
A method of extracting a placenta by massaging the uterus through the abdomen.
The putting of silver nitrate solution into the eyes of a baby born to a mother who has gonorrhoea, in order to prevent gonococcal conjunctivitis [Described 1860. After Karl Sigmund Franz Credé (1819-92), German gynaecologist.]