A System of midwifery : including the diseases of pregnancy and the puerperal state . Donble-heade I m Doable monster. simultaneous passage through the pelvis f the mother. The monsterhere shown, from one which was described by lb-. .). <i. Walter, hasthree legs and four arms. Complete fusion of the pelves was found onexamination after death t have occurred, and there was also union ofthe ensiform cartilages. On first Bight it may appear thai delivery,inMich a case, \\iil I be even more difficult than of the ordinary two-headed monster; bui a little consideration will showthat the possibili
A System of midwifery : including the diseases of pregnancy and the puerperal state . Donble-heade I m Doable monster. simultaneous passage through the pelvis f the mother. The monsterhere shown, from one which was described by lb-. .). <i. Walter, hasthree legs and four arms. Complete fusion of the pelves was found onexamination after death t have occurred, and there was also union ofthe ensiform cartilages. On first Bight it may appear thai delivery,inMich a case, \\iil I be even more difficult than of the ordinary two-headed monster; bui a little consideration will showthat the possibility of one head at a time passing along the ]vh I id of the greatest difficulty which attaches to this variety. The probability of a trans-presentation in such a case is,however, verj strong; and this,ofcourse, would be a most unfortunate circumstance, a- turning and bringing down the feet would inevitably bring the head- together, andthus make matters worse than ever. 592 OBSTRUCTIONS TO LABOR. [CHAP. It has occasionally happened that twins, more or less completely
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