Dr. Conquest's outlines of midwifery : intended as a text-book for students, and a book of reference for junior practitioners.

  • Conquest, Dr.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Dr. Conquest's outlines of midwifery : intended as a text-book for students, and a book of reference for junior practitioners. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    brought down, taking care never to draw them over the back of the child, but ahoays along the abdomen. The arm now recedes, and the case is converted into a presentation of the feet, and claims the same management. [If the feet are close together, it may be as well to seize them both, provided they can be grasped with ease, as the evolution is eiFected more quickly by so doing; if, however, only one foot can be felt, no attempt must be made to search for the other extremity. One foot is all-sufficient for the purpose. —J. M. W.] But a variety of circumstances may occur to render