The veterinary obstetrical compendium : for the farmer and breeder of livestock . ious character, they deservethe most careful study in order that they may be success-fully overcome. It is very necessary that Normal Partur-ition, also How to Make Successful Examinations inDifficult Parturition be thoroughly and carefully readbefore reading the following Malpresentations. NATURAL—ANTERIOR PRESENTATION. In this presentation the extended head and the out-stretched forelimbs are toward the genital canal. As thispresentation has been thoroughly explained and illustratedunder Normal Parturition, the
The veterinary obstetrical compendium : for the farmer and breeder of livestock . ious character, they deservethe most careful study in order that they may be success-fully overcome. It is very necessary that Normal Partur-ition, also How to Make Successful Examinations inDifficult Parturition be thoroughly and carefully readbefore reading the following Malpresentations. NATURAL—ANTERIOR PRESENTATION. In this presentation the extended head and the out-stretched forelimbs are toward the genital canal. As thispresentation has been thoroughly explained and illustratedunder Normal Parturition, the reader will be referred tothat subject. Obstetrics—Domesticated Animals. 153 DEVIATION OF THE HIND-LIMBS IN THEANTERIOR PRESENTATION. In this presentation the operator will either find thethighs of the foetus turned outward from its flanks, or thehind legs flexed forward, underneath the belly of the foe-tus, and the feet or fetlocks caught under the brim of thepelvis at the inlet, so that delivery by force would causethe hind feet to penetrate into the abdominal cavity of. Fig. 22. DEVIATION OF THE HIND-LIMBS IN THE ANTERIORPRESENTATION. the mother, and this might cause the death of the mother,and off-spring. TREATMENT.—In nearly every case the preserva-tion of the mother is the object to be attained. A safe de-livery can be effected only by the proper adjustment of thehind legs. This is all the more difficult, when the foetusis well advanced in the passage and much traction hasbeen employed. If upon examination, the thighs are ex-tended outward from the flanks of the foetus, it should beforced back within the womb and the limbs drawn asclosely together as possible, with the hand. If this cannotbe done with the hands, take a well greased half-inch rope, 154 Obstetrics—Domesticated Animals. and fasten it around the body of the foetus with a runningnoose. (See Fig. 42.) Then the operator should workthe rope just bej^ond the rump of the foetus, or midwaybetween the rump a
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