The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . aturally varies in different clinics. During threeyears in the Paris Maternity (ending March i, 1899) the forceps was applied236 times in 4380 deliveries, about 6 per cent., or i in Of the 236 extrac-tions, 211 were examples of the ordinary low or median operation, while theremaining 25 were high-forceps cases, all for contracted pelves.* During oneyear at the Glasgow Maternity there were 187 forceps deliveries in 2179 confine-ments, about per cent., or i in Of 482 cases confined at th
The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . aturally varies in different clinics. During threeyears in the Paris Maternity (ending March i, 1899) the forceps was applied236 times in 4380 deliveries, about 6 per cent., or i in Of the 236 extrac-tions, 211 were examples of the ordinary low or median operation, while theremaining 25 were high-forceps cases, all for contracted pelves.* During oneyear at the Glasgow Maternity there were 187 forceps deliveries in 2179 confine-ments, about per cent., or i in Of 482 cases confined at the Maternityproper, there was 18 per cent, of forceps intervention, or i in ; while of 1697women confined at their homes by the Maternity staff, 6 per cent, were deliveredby forceps, or i in ! During the year 1898 there were 6 forceps deliveriesin 458 confinements at the Brussels Maternity, only about per cent., or i in77.+ Ahlfeld (1897) reports 4000 cases with no forceps operations, or percent., or once in cases.§ In 2200 confinements in two hospitals I found that. Fig. 1203.—Elliotts Modification of Simpsons Forceps.
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