A system of obstetrics . cephalus monster causing dystocia. Ahead descending, he applied forceps, but failed to deliver. Then, rec-ognizing that the difficulty came from a second head, he turned, anddelivered. Foetus nineteen and a half inches long and weighed eightand three-quarter pounds. King5 has recently reported a case of dicephalus, the woman havingbeen in labor two days; the labor was premature, the woman a prirn-ipara. One of the heads presented, but attempts to deliver it with 1 The specimen is in the Museum of Jefferson Medical College. The case is reportedby Dr. Boerstler in the Am
A system of obstetrics . cephalus monster causing dystocia. Ahead descending, he applied forceps, but failed to deliver. Then, rec-ognizing that the difficulty came from a second head, he turned, anddelivered. Foetus nineteen and a half inches long and weighed eightand three-quarter pounds. King5 has recently reported a case of dicephalus, the woman havingbeen in labor two days; the labor was premature, the woman a prirn-ipara. One of the heads presented, but attempts to deliver it with 1 The specimen is in the Museum of Jefferson Medical College. The case is reportedby Dr. Boerstler in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, vol. xxx., 1855. 2 In the case reported by Facello, a tricephalus born alive and living for three days,the child sucked with all three mouths, and cried also with all three. (See Veit,op. cit.) 3 Meigi Obstetrics, 3d ed., p. 425. 4 Lancet, June, 1882. 5 An Unusual Case of Monstrosity, by James K. King, Clifton Springs, NewYork, Edinburgh Obstetrical Societys Transactions, vol. Derodymus (Mutter Museum, College ofPhysicians, Philadelphia). ANOMALIES CAUSED BY DISEASE OF THE FCETUS. 785 Simpsons axis-traction forceps having failed, the presenting head wasremoved and delivery effected by podalic version and extraction. Themonstrosity was nineteen inches long and weighed twelve pounds: themother died three hours after delivery. Two cases of dicephalous monsters are reported by both Playfair andVeit, in which decapitation was done, and then turning. The follow-ing observations by Veit are of interest in this connection : If afterdecapitation podalic version appears a too dangerous operation for themother, we will find that delivery by means of evisceration or ofsimple traction on the body is to a great extent rendered easy, as wehave made room for hand and instruments. The repulsive impressionmade upon those present by decapitation is plain from the fact thatKleinwachter desires to more restrict the limit; but in a case of diccph-alus di
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