The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . Fig. 659.—Before Fig. 66r. -After Moulding in Fronto-Anterior Position. delivery became converted into either a face or a vertex presentation. Of these one childdied. Fourteen children were extracted with forceps, nine with the brow presenting, ofwhich two were dead, one from prolapsed funis, and one which had died before labor; fiveafter conversion into face or vertex presentations, with no deaths. Thus among the thirty-four children there were seven deaths, but of these, four only could be
The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . Fig. 659.—Before Fig. 66r. -After Moulding in Fronto-Anterior Position. delivery became converted into either a face or a vertex presentation. Of these one childdied. Fourteen children were extracted with forceps, nine with the brow presenting, ofwhich two were dead, one from prolapsed funis, and one which had died before labor; fiveafter conversion into face or vertex presentations, with no deaths. Thus among the thirty-four children there were seven deaths, but of these, four only could be attributed to thepresentation. 508 PATHOLOGICAL LABOR. perforation of the skull and extraction with the cranioclast or cephalotribe shouldalways be performed when by so doing the prognosis for the mother is from the standpoint of sentiment alone should never deter us frommutilating the head of a dead fetus in order to lessen the dangers of extractingan unmutilated head through the birth canal. 1. Before Engagement of the Brow.—(i) Placing the parturient on the sidetoward which the dorsal plane
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