Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . Avo or moreof the limbs, but always at least a hind and fore one. The head may befound, or it may be out of reach. The sternum and other parts on thelower surface of the body can also be felt. PARTURITION. 491 In this presentation there are two principal positions: 1. Left Cephalo-ilial Position.—The foetus lies on the right
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . Avo or moreof the limbs, but always at least a hind and fore one. The head may befound, or it may be out of reach. The sternum and other parts on thelower surface of the body can also be felt. PARTURITION. 491 In this presentation there are two principal positions: 1. Left Cephalo-ilial Position.—The foetus lies on the right side, thehead towards the left ilium of the mother, and the croup to the rightilium, 2. Right Cephalo-ilial Position.—This is the reverse of the preceding. Saint-Cyr, who has mainly followed Rainard in the definition of thesepresentations and positions of the foetus, insists on the necessity for study-ing them carefully, as by so doing those Avho commence the practice ofobstetricy will be greatly enlightened as to the difficulties they may en-counter, and the readiest and most scientific way of overcoming them;while this study will enable the skilled practitioner to describe his interest-ing cases with more clearness and precision. To render what has just been. CEPHALO-SACRAL IOSITION OF THE FOETUS. stated more convenient, the following table is given, in order to show at aglance the different presentations and positions. PRESENTATIONS AND POSITIONS OF THE FOETUS. r 1. 2Anterior Positions ?^ „ 14: Posterior Positions -j ^ [ S. ( Positions < 10. Positions | Jg Cephalo-ilial. 498 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. XV. Mechanism of Parturition. Under normal conditions, it may be said that the pelvis itself does
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