The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . the fetus maybe delivered without any mechanismor danger. In reality the prognosiswill depend on the operation which ischosen for delivery of the child. Anunchanged brow position with normalhead will require so much time forspontaneous delivery that the ob-stetrician cannot conscientiously waitfor nature to complete the birth. Treatment.—One must never trustto spontaneous rectification; manualcorrection of the faulty attitude intoa vertex presentation, or even into abreech by podalic version, gives bet


The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . the fetus maybe delivered without any mechanismor danger. In reality the prognosiswill depend on the operation which ischosen for delivery of the child. Anunchanged brow position with normalhead will require so much time forspontaneous delivery that the ob-stetrician cannot conscientiously waitfor nature to complete the birth. Treatment.—One must never trustto spontaneous rectification; manualcorrection of the faulty attitude intoa vertex presentation, or even into abreech by podalic version, gives betterresults than waiting for spontaneousdelivery with the brow of a brow presentation bychanging the posture of the woman,and also, I may add, by externalmanipulation alone, as in Schatzsmethod (Part X), are refinements ofobstetric procedure which rarely suc-ceed and unnecessarily disturb thepatient. Further, in this as in otherfaulty attitudes, presentations, orpositions of the head when the fetus ispositively determined to be dead. MOULDING IN BROW Fig. 660.—Fetal Skull showing Mould-ing IN Brow Presentation.—(Authorscollection.)


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