The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . Fig. 1156.—Braunsd e ca pitatin gHook. Fig. 1157.—Decapi-tating SickleKnife of Rams- Fig. T158.—Duboiss Decapitating and General Embryotomy Scissors. imparted to the catheter by placing it in warm water if necessary, and it is thenpassed around the fetal neck. An end of the bobbin is caught with two fingers DECAPITATION. 967 -^rfr<«^^*9*._. in the vagina or with dressing forceps, and the catheter is finally withdrawn withthe other end. The bobbin encircling the neck is used to drag up and a
The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . Fig. 1156.—Braunsd e ca pitatin gHook. Fig. 1157.—Decapi-tating SickleKnife of Rams- Fig. T158.—Duboiss Decapitating and General Embryotomy Scissors. imparted to the catheter by placing it in warm water if necessary, and it is thenpassed around the fetal neck. An end of the bobbin is caught with two fingers DECAPITATION. 967 -^rfr<«^^*9*._. in the vagina or with dressing forceps, and the catheter is finally withdrawn withthe other end. The bobbin encircling the neck is used to drag up and around awhip-cord or the wire or chain of an dcraseur. In the use of cord, wire, or chaingreat care must be used to protect the maternal soft parts, and to make sure thata portion of the cervix is not included in the instrument used. The choice ofinstruments to-day usually lies between (i) Brauns blunt hook decollator (); (2) a stout pair of scissors, as Duboiss (Fig. 1158); (3) a curved knife-edge hook, as Schultzes or Ramsbothams (Fig. 1157). Perhaps nowhere morethan in obstetrics does tradition influence one in the choice of instruments andoperative procedure. For th
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