A textbook of obstetrics . favorable to the child, andthe head is more readily brought to present at the superior strait,making the version easier and quicker of performance than ifthe breech were brought down. Podalic Version—This operation was known in the time ofthe Roman Empire, but was lost sight of until Ambrose Pare andhis students revived it in the sixteenth century. The operationis performed as follows : Relaxation of the uterus and of the ab-dominal muscles is secured by an anesthetic. The lowest pos-sible position of the fetal feet is secured by turning the motheron that side toward

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A textbook of obstetrics . favorable to the child, andthe head is more readily brought to present at the superior strait,making the version easier and quicker of performance than ifthe breech were brought down. Podalic Version—This operation was known in the time ofthe Roman Empire, but was lost sight of until Ambrose Pare andhis students revived it in the sixteenth century. The operationis performed as follows : Relaxation of the uterus and of the ab-dominal muscles is secured by an anesthetic. The lowest pos-sible position of the fetal feet is secured by turning the motheron that side toward which the feet point. That hand which,midway between pronation and supination, as the operator facesthe womans vulva, corresponds with its palmar surface to theabdomen of the child is inserted, in an aseptic condition, into theuterine cavity, until it meets the anterior foot. This foot isgrasped by the first two fingers and the thumb, and is then ex-tracted until the knee appears at the vulva. / r OBSTETRIC OPERA Fig. 55^.—DOutreponts method of combined version, modified by Scan;

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