The principles and practice of obstetrics . 132 were dead, and 251 were still-born. 252 THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF OBSTETRICS. the latter ease, in consequence of the extreme congenital shortnessof the ambilical cord, there will be more or less hazard of its saddenrupture daring the throes of labor in some portion of its extent, oiOf its being torn from the umbilicus, giving rise to serious, if notfatal, hemorrhage. If neither of these accidents should occur, therewould still be danger of suddenly detaching the placenta from theuterus, or, if the adhesion he Btrong enough to resist the trac
The principles and practice of obstetrics . 132 were dead, and 251 were still-born. 252 THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF OBSTETRICS. the latter ease, in consequence of the extreme congenital shortnessof the ambilical cord, there will be more or less hazard of its saddenrupture daring the throes of labor in some portion of its extent, oiOf its being torn from the umbilicus, giving rise to serious, if notfatal, hemorrhage. If neither of these accidents should occur, therewould still be danger of suddenly detaching the placenta from theuterus, or, if the adhesion he Btrong enough to resist the traction,the next evil in the order of sequence would be inversion,or turning inside out of the uterus itself, a contingency full of dan-ger to the mother, as will be explained when treating more par-ticularly of this form of uterine difficulty. You will sometimes recognise knotted cords, that is, there willbe observed in the cxtotit of the funis one or several knots, andthese are more particularly noticed in cases in which the cord. Fig. 47. exceeds its ordinary length. (Fig. 47.) It is supposed that thislatter circumstance, together with the movements of the foetus,predisposes to the formation of these knots. I have several times Of 72.~> born with coiled funis, 45 were dead, and 72 still-born. Among the 45dead-born, in the 725 examples of coiling, in 18 only could the death be referred tothis latter circumstance alone. From results derived from the Midwifery Institutions at Dresden, Gottingen,Wurzburg, Berlin, and Marburg, it appears that of 13,7iO new-born infante, 902were born dead; while in 1217 instances of coiling of the funis, 31 children wereborn dead, whose death could be ascribed to that circumstance, giving a proportionof 1*39 to the coilings. and T19 to the number born dead. Thus, as the sixteenth child among new-born children, in general, as well asamong those in which the cord is found twisted, is born dead; as the twelfth childamong the new-born, in ge
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