A text-book of veterinary obstetrics : including the diseases and accidents incidental to pregnancy, parturition and early age in the domesticated animals . Fig. Short Crotchet-Forceps. they have the additional advantage that they scarcely occupy any spacein the pelvic canal. The pelvis of our animals is nearly rectilinear;with the cords we pull in a straight line ; what more could the forcepsdo ? The entire hand can be introduced freely into the pelvis, andmoved about easily. This cannot be done in human is no known forceps capable of affording such a solid purc
A text-book of veterinary obstetrics : including the diseases and accidents incidental to pregnancy, parturition and early age in the domesticated animals . Fig. Short Crotchet-Forceps. they have the additional advantage that they scarcely occupy any spacein the pelvic canal. The pelvis of our animals is nearly rectilinear;with the cords we pull in a straight line ; what more could the forcepsdo ? The entire hand can be introduced freely into the pelvis, andmoved about easily. This cannot be done in human is no known forceps capable of affording such a solid purchase,and at the same time one so harmless, as good cords fixed on thepasterns, or a halter properly placed on the Fig. Simple Crotchet-Forceps. Though an instrument resembling the human forceps is not at alladapted for extracting the foetus in such animals as the Mare or Cow,and though in the cords and halter an excellent substitute is found ;yet modified forceps, which might be designated—if not from theirshape, at least from their action—crotchet-forceps, have been longemployed by veterinary obstetrists, and with much advantage in certaincases. The simplest of these consists merely of two short crotchets,the points opposite each other, and a cord passing through both eye-lets (Fig. 184). The hooks can be inserted near, but opposite to, eachother, on each side of the spine, pelvis, head, flanks, etc., the cord, 1 0;j. cit., vol. ii., p. 98. MECHANICAL EXTRACTION UF THE FiETUS. .19 when tightened, bringing them closer together, and so concentratingthe traction. A longer crotchet-forceps (Fig. 185), with a wider curveat the points, is not infrequently used with success in breech prese
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