The principles and practice of obstetrics . External rotation T Sinclairs RESTITUTION. —EXTERNAL ROTATION, 155 ders, originally oblique at the superior strait, becometransverse in the pelvis when the occiput reaches thearch of the pubis. Hence, as there is no twist in theneck, there can be, strictly speaking, no rotation. Webelieve, however, that M. Gerdy has made a rule outof an exception; for, although there can be no doubtthat occasionally the shoulders are transverse when thehead is delivered, yet we insist that this is rarely thecase, and that very generally the shoulders remain ob
The principles and practice of obstetrics . External rotation T Sinclairs RESTITUTION. —EXTERNAL ROTATION, 155 ders, originally oblique at the superior strait, becometransverse in the pelvis when the occiput reaches thearch of the pubis. Hence, as there is no twist in theneck, there can be, strictly speaking, no rotation. Webelieve, however, that M. Gerdy has made a rule outof an exception; for, although there can be no doubtthat occasionally the shoulders are transverse when thehead is delivered, yet we insist that this is rarely thecase, and that very generally the shoulders remain ob-lique when the head rotates: the neck, therefore, istwisted, and, of course, in a constrained constraint disappearing after delivery, necessitatesthe return of the head to its former obliquity. This fourth period is now finished, to the great reliefof the suffering parent. Fifth Period of the Second Stage. — If the practi-tioner now makes a careful examination, he will findthat the uterine tumor is exceedingly diminishe
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