A System of midwifery : including the diseases of pregnancy and the puerperal state . Arm displaced upwards. strange that this should be less frequent than the first position, andthat nature should prefer the left oblique diameter in breech cases to Fia. f dir head. the right ; and this too would almost seem to throw doubt upon the• •pinion we have expressed that she prefers the right oblique in cranial 332 PELVIC PRESENTATIONS. [dlAP. presentations, in order to avoid the left, which is encroached upon bythe rectum. But, even here, if we watch the case to a termination, wefind nature app
A System of midwifery : including the diseases of pregnancy and the puerperal state . Arm displaced upwards. strange that this should be less frequent than the first position, andthat nature should prefer the left oblique diameter in breech cases to Fia. f dir head. the right ; and this too would almost seem to throw doubt upon the• •pinion we have expressed that she prefers the right oblique in cranial 332 PELVIC PRESENTATIONS. [dlAP. presentations, in order to avoid the left, which is encroached upon bythe rectum. But, even here, if we watch the case to a termination, wefind nature apparently guided in a majority of cases by the selfsamelaw. For, as we have already seen, the really critical and importantmoment of a breech case is that during which the head passes throughand out of the pelvis ; and it is on this account that in the more com-mon first position the head is in the favorable diameter; whereas, inthe second, the head descends in the left, which is, as statistics wouldseem to show, more dangerous to the child, probably because detentionof the head is more likely to occur. Third Position of the Breech.—Of 161 cases occurring at Heidelberg,121 had the back, and 40 the belly of the child turned forwards. Thisgives as ne
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