Observations in midwifery, particularly on the different methods of assisting women in tedious and difficult labours. To which are added, observations on the principal disorders incident to women and children / By William Dease.

William Dease

Date:: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]

Credit: Observations in midwifery, particularly on the different methods of assisting women in tedious and difficult labours. To which are added, observations on the principal disorders incident to women and children / By William Dease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$RR Nt) Neate SR [ 46 ] that I feldom fucceeded but where the head was at leaft half way down in the pelvis. I began to fufpe& both Smellie’s and Leveret’s documents in regard to applying the forceps, when the head refts above the pelvis, or where it is but very little engaged in it; andi found the moft experienced operators and profeffors, although they talked of delivering by the forceps when the head was high up, feldom or ne- ver applied them, but when it was very low down, or if they did, they were foiled in attempting to deliver. On confidering thefe circumftances, _ { was inclined to prefer and improve the lever of Roonhuyfen ; the form which I have given it, from repeated experience, I find anfwer the inten- tion of the forceps, without being li- able to the many difadvantages we meet with in ufing the latter. To apply this (or in fhort) any inftrument in midwifery, our fuccefs depends on judging the time moft proper to ufe it, and the manner in which |$