The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . Fig. 1084.—Cervical Canal in a Primi-PARA WITH Beginning Dilatation ofTHE Internal Os. Eclampsia.—(Leo-pold.). Fig. 1085.—Cervix in Latter Part opGestation or at Beginning of and Supravaginal PortionsOF Cervix Unchanged, Cuff ofvagina; , external os and infra-vaginal portion of cervix; , cervico-vaginal junction; , supravaginalportion of cervix; , internal os;, lower uterine segment. become sufficiently relaxed so that rapid dilatation i


The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . Fig. 1084.—Cervical Canal in a Primi-PARA WITH Beginning Dilatation ofTHE Internal Os. Eclampsia.—(Leo-pold.). Fig. 1085.—Cervix in Latter Part opGestation or at Beginning of and Supravaginal PortionsOF Cervix Unchanged, Cuff ofvagina; , external os and infra-vaginal portion of cervix; , cervico-vaginal junction; , supravaginalportion of cervix; , internal os;, lower uterine segment. become sufficiently relaxed so that rapid dilatation is rendered a safe manual dilatation may be undertaken and complete paralysis of thecervix attained within an hour, as shown in Fig. 1078, even when there is aminimum amount of uterine action or when the os is in a softened, yielding,and relaxing condition, although the anatomical conditions pictured by may exist. A strictly expectant treatment in respect to emptying theuterus is far preferable to the attempt quickly to overcome a rigid os by manualmeans, when the supravaginal portion of the cervix still persists (Figs. 1082,1085). To the writers knowledge such a procedu


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