The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . I Fig. 794. — Lateral Vagino-perinealRuptures with Abrasions of -StheVulva.—{Redrawn after Bar.) Fig. 795.—Perforations and Lacera-tions of the Labia Minora and Vagi-nal Inlet.—{Redrawn after Bar.) MATERNAL DZSTOCIA IN THE PARTURIENT TRACT. 597 quently occurring and the most important of all the accidents, owing to theparticipation in the rupture of the levator ani muscle. Central rupture of theperineum is described by most authors as an injury sui generis, as if it had noconnection with the common var


The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . I Fig. 794. — Lateral Vagino-perinealRuptures with Abrasions of -StheVulva.—{Redrawn after Bar.) Fig. 795.—Perforations and Lacera-tions of the Labia Minora and Vagi-nal Inlet.—{Redrawn after Bar.) MATERNAL DZSTOCIA IN THE PARTURIENT TRACT. 597 quently occurring and the most important of all the accidents, owing to theparticipation in the rupture of the levator ani muscle. Central rupture of theperineum is described by most authors as an injury sui generis, as if it had noconnection with the common varieties. It seems to me that the only way ofclassifying and naming these lacerations is that which takes Cognizance of theprecise tissues involved. Thus, ruptures of the pelvic floor are (i) lacerations,(2) submucous or muscular ruptures. (i) Lacerations are (a) vulval (fourchette, posterior commissure); (6) vulvo-perineal; (c) vaginal (described under that head); (d) intraperineal (so-calledcentral rupture) (vagina also involved); (e) lateral vagino-perineal (vulva in-volved), un


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