. An American text-book of obstetrics. For practitioners and students. Fig. 524—Cephalotribe of 59 930 AMERICAN TEXT-BOOK OF OBSTETRICS. (4) Monstrosities, such as hydrocephalus. (5) Impaction of the presenting part, as in locked twins or in some face pres-entations, especially if there are swelling and inflammation of the vagina orof the cervix resulting from long impaction. (6) Eclampsia and other causes which demand immediate delivery, if it can-not safely be accomplished in any other way. If the liquor amnii has long beendrained away, the uterus sometimes becomes tetauically contra
. An American text-book of obstetrics. For practitioners and students. Fig. 524—Cephalotribe of 59 930 AMERICAN TEXT-BOOK OF OBSTETRICS. (4) Monstrosities, such as hydrocephalus. (5) Impaction of the presenting part, as in locked twins or in some face pres-entations, especially if there are swelling and inflammation of the vagina orof the cervix resulting from long impaction. (6) Eclampsia and other causes which demand immediate delivery, if it can-not safely be accomplished in any other way. If the liquor amnii has long beendrained away, the uterus sometimes becomes tetauically contracted about thefetus, and rupture is imminent; in such cases forceps, version, and Cesareansection are dangerous, and embryotomy affords the best chance for the child will probably have perished long before the question of embryotomycomes up for consideration. Instruments.—Space does not permit a description of the numerous ingeni-ous instruments which have been devised for the mutilation and extraction ofthe fetus. As the prime object of these operations is to reduce the bulk of thefet
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