Foetus head extended in the contrary position in the birth canal during labour, assisted by forceps. Copperplate engraving by Andrew Bell after an illustration by Jan van Rymsdyk from William Smellie's A Set of Anatomical Tables, Charles Elliot, Edinburgh, 1780.

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