A textbook of obstetrics . Fig. 240.—Same as figure 237, showing escape of li^. 241. — Breech presentation—rotation ot the hips. 25 386 THE ME CI I AX ISM OF LABOR. entered the pelvis with its long diameters in the oblique diameterof the pelvis, opposite to that in which the shoulders engaged. The head descends the birth-canal to the pelvic floor in aposition of extension. The occiput, which is always the partfirst to strike the pelvic floor, is rotated forward under the

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