A theoretical and practical treatise on midwifery : including the diseases of pregnancy and parturition and the attentions required by the child from birth to the period of weaning . l surface of the hand, and then, by grasp-ing the foot, it is slipped over it above the malleoli, and afterwards tightened by drawingon the two extremities of the tape that hang down at the vulva. When the foot is high upin the vagina, it is often very difficult to apply the fillet: in this case, M. Van Huevel pro-poses substituting for it a long forceps, the upper extremity of whose branches terminate ina half ri
A theoretical and practical treatise on midwifery : including the diseases of pregnancy and parturition and the attentions required by the child from birth to the period of weaning . l surface of the hand, and then, by grasp-ing the foot, it is slipped over it above the malleoli, and afterwards tightened by drawingon the two extremities of the tape that hang down at the vulva. When the foot is high upin the vagina, it is often very difficult to apply the fillet: in this case, M. Van Huevel pro-poses substituting for it a long forceps, the upper extremity of whose branches terminate ina half ring placed at right angles upon the stem. When the forceps are closed, we have acomplete ring, by means of which the leg is seized above the malleoli. But why shouldinstruments be so multiplied without absolute necessity? 780 DYSTOCIA. terior part of the limbs, the index and mediiis on their external surface, and thering and the little fingers on their anterior surface. When the breech appearsat the vulva, it is necessary to ascertain the state of the cord; for that purpose,a finger is to be slipped up to its umbilical insertion, when, if it be found tense, Fig. 100. Fig.
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