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 . le blade is to be held in the right hand,and is always to be applied at the right side of the pelvis. M. Hatin has lately suggested a method which bears considerable resem-blance to that employed by Flamand in some exceptional cases. It consists inthe introduction of both branches by the same hand. The left hand, prefer-ably, is carried to the fundus of the uterus, or at least to the parts to which theforceps are
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 . le blade is to be held in the right hand,and is always to be applied at the right side of the pelvis. M. Hatin has lately suggested a method which bears considerable resem-blance to that employed by Flamand in some exceptional cases. It consists inthe introduction of both branches by the same hand. The left hand, prefer-ably, is carried to the fundus of the uterus, or at least to the parts to which theforceps are to be applied. The first branch having been introduced along thehand which serves as a guide, the latter, without quitting the head of the foetus,passes around it, and places itself on the opposite side, to receive and guide thesecond branch of the instrument. This process, represented by M. Hatin to be the easiest, and especially theleast dangerous for both mother and child, does not appear to me to possess allthe advantages claimed for it by Flamand and M. Hatin. As M. Stoltz judi-ciously remarks, it can have no advantage except when the head is movable, or THE FORCEPS. 801. Introduction of the first branch. previously rendered so, above the superior strait, in which case we have alreadyseen that pelvic version is prefer-able, even though the pelvis be FlS- 1I2-slightly contracted. When the head is wedged in thesuperior strait, or more or less en-gaged in the excavation, it seemsto me that the ordinary process isincontestably superior. 5. The free hand, or the one notengaged in holding the blade, should,always be introduced firsk, so as todirect the latter.—When the headis at the inferior strait, it is usuallysufficient to insert two or three fin-gers between the side of the headand the pelvis (see Fig. 112); butwhenever it is high up, the entirehand must be introduced into thevagina, taking the precaution toplace the ends of the fingers be-tween the head and the os uteriso
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