. A set of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment of the practice of midwifery : with a view to illustrate a treatise on that subject, and collection of cases. which, however, oughl nevei to be per-formed, excepting when it is impracticable to de-liver at all by any other method. Even in thiscafe, after the upper part of the head is .limm-llhtd in bulk, and the bones are extracted, force mufl be applied in order to extracltin hones of the face and bafis of the Ikull, aswell as the body of the Fcetus. I >f Vol. I. Book III. Chap. 3. Sed. 7. Sett. 3. and
. A set of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment of the practice of midwifery : with a view to illustrate a treatise on that subject, and collection of cases. which, however, oughl nevei to be per-formed, excepting when it is impracticable to de-liver at all by any other method. Even in thiscafe, after the upper part of the head is .limm-llhtd in bulk, and the bones are extracted, force mufl be applied in order to extracltin hones of the face and bafis of the Ikull, aswell as the body of the Fcetus. I >f Vol. I. Book III. Chap. 3. Sed. 7. Sett. 3. and Vol. III. Coll. 31. 39. Ar. B. In oppofition to the opinion of , and lentimcnts of former authors, has proved, from the cafe of ElizabethSherwood, that a child at full maturity maybe extracted by the crotchet through a Pelviswhofe aperture does not exceed one inch and ahalf from Pubes to Sacrum, with tolerable facilityto the operator, and perfect fafety to the mothc 1 ;dimenfions much lefs than what have been fup-pofed to require the Ctrfarian operation, even inthe latelt and bed books. EfTay on LaboriousParturition, page 64.—251, Sec, TWENTY %, IV. S^ with EXPLANATIONS, &c. rj7 TWENTY NINTH TABLE Rcprcfents, in a front view of the Pelvis, as inTable XXII, the breech of the Foetus prefent-ing, and dilating the Os Internum, the Mem~brants being too foon broke. The fore partsof the child are to the pofterior part of theUterus ; and the Funis with a knot upon it,furrounds the neck, arm, and body. Some time after this and the following Tableswere engraved, Dr. Kelly mowed me a fubjecl: hehad opened, where the breech prefented itfelf,and lay much in the fame pofition with its bodyas in the ninth Table, fuppofing the breech inthat figure turned down to the Pelvis, and thehead up to the Fundus Uteri. I have fometimes felt, in thefe cafes [whenlabour was begun, and before the breech wasadvanced into the Pelvis] one hip at the Sacrum,the other refting above the Os
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