. Obstetrics: the science and the art. 102, to see how he would make the face of the child come to thefront of the pelvis if he should incautiously make tractions upon theleft foot only. When he has extracted the child as far as the navel,let him do what is represented in Fig. 103, that is to say, let himcarefully draw a considerable loop of the umbilical cord, so that nodanger may be incurred of breaking it or tearing it out by its rootsat the umbilical ring. The patient should now be turned upon herback, and the childs legs should be wrapped in a napkin, to holdthem securely. As soon as a go
. Obstetrics: the science and the art. 102, to see how he would make the face of the child come to thefront of the pelvis if he should incautiously make tractions upon theleft foot only. When he has extracted the child as far as the navel,let him do what is represented in Fig. 103, that is to say, let himcarefully draw a considerable loop of the umbilical cord, so that nodanger may be incurred of breaking it or tearing it out by its rootsat the umbilical ring. The patient should now be turned upon herback, and the childs legs should be wrapped in a napkin, to holdthem securely. As soon as a good part of the thorax is expelled, lethim pass tAvo fingers upwards to the top of the shoulder that is mostwithin reach, raising the body -of the child upwards towards thewomans abdomen if he desires to get at the posterior shoulder, ordepressing it towards the sacrum if he wishes to act on the anterior il2 PEETERNATURAL shoulder. Sliding liis fingers from the acromion as far as he cantowards the bend of the elbow, let them force the elbow downwards,cansing it to sweep along the breast of the child. As soon as the elbow is withdrawn, the hand will comeforth and the shoulder be extricated, afterwhich let him proceed in like mannerwith the remaining shonlder, using thefingers of the other hand as in Fig. shoulders being delivered, let theStudent next raise the trunk of the childupwards towards the mothers abdomen,much higher than is represented in theannexed design. Fig. 105. It is ex-tremely important not to forget this the Student wants at this point is,a great flexion of the head ; let him, there-fore, carry the breast far away from thechin by turning the childs trunk up-wards towards, or even on the mothersabdomen, as above directed, and then in-troducing one or two fingers into the childs mouth, let him pull thechin towards the uplifted breast of the child—thus restoring thechi
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