A textbook of obstetrics . ie treatment of labor obstructed by hydrocephalus is punc-ture of the cranium with a perforator and evacuation of its fluidcontents. A child with this disease deserves no the reduction in the size of the head the labor may be leftto the natural forces. If these prove insufficient, a cranioclastmay be fastened to the skull and the child be extracted cardinal rule in the treatment of these cases is to avoid at-tempts to deliver with forceps—a common error in practice, andone that has cost many a woman her lifefrom ruptured uterus,.

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