. A system of midwifery, including the diseases of pregnancy and the puerperal state. two heads descended, situatedobliquely with reference to each other, in the pelvis, so that the onewas a little in advance of the other. In this way, and after long- XXXVI.] MONSTROSITY. 591 protracted efforts, the heads, which were quite the average size, pelvis was, as might have been expected, a capacious one; but eventhis does not make the case less interesting. The mode of deliverydescribed by Meigs is generally supposed to be the only possible wayin which such a child can be born without perf
. A system of midwifery, including the diseases of pregnancy and the puerperal state. two heads descended, situatedobliquely with reference to each other, in the pelvis, so that the onewas a little in advance of the other. In this way, and after long- XXXVI.] MONSTROSITY. 591 protracted efforts, the heads, which were quite the average size, pelvis was, as might have been expected, a capacious one; but eventhis does not make the case less interesting. The mode of deliverydescribed by Meigs is generally supposed to be the only possible wayin which such a child can be born without perforation or decapitation ;but the case above given, which is extremely rare, if not unique, showsthat if the other be the rule, it has at least, like many other rules,exceptions. In that class of cases in which there is one head and a double condi-tion of the lower parts of the body (Janiceps), the difficulty is not likelyto be so great, as it is much more conceivable that two pelves could besufficiently pressed together during their descent as to admit of their Fig. 195. Fig.
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