The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . ad is very slow in engaging, consequently in pregnancy lighteningdoes not occur, and these conditionsgive rise to painful dyspnea. Some-times the presenting part fails toengage at all. The caput succeda-neum is generally very large and itsgradual development is sometimesthought to indicate progress of thedescending part. The presentationand position of the fetus also oftensuffer from contracted pelves, theabnormal varieties being about threetimes as common as normal. Forexample, a vertex presentation m


The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . ad is very slow in engaging, consequently in pregnancy lighteningdoes not occur, and these conditionsgive rise to painful dyspnea. Some-times the presenting part fails toengage at all. The caput succeda-neum is generally very large and itsgradual development is sometimesthought to indicate progress of thedescending part. The presentationand position of the fetus also oftensuffer from contracted pelves, theabnormal varieties being about threetimes as common as normal. Forexample, a vertex presentation maybe turned into a brow, face, or shoul-der. In breech presentation there isfrequently a prolapse of foot or of the cord is also , as in the normal pelvis, only adds to the likelihood of faulty presentations, for the walls of both uterusand abdomen became gradually more relaxed with each successive the uterus together with the cervix is either at or above the pelvic inlet, thebag of waters is forced downward into the cervix as a conical body. Fig. Deformed Pelvis from DoubleClub-foot. Not infre-


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