The principles and practice of midwifery : with some of the diseases of women.

  • Milne, Alexander
Date:
1871
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Credit: The principles and practice of midwifery : with some of the diseases of women. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER XXII. PAGE UNNATURAL LABOUR ; ORDER III. OBSTRUCTED LABOUR. Sources of Obstruction—Preternatural SmaUness, or Ab- sence, or Occlusion of the Os—Malignant Disease of Uterus—Contracted, or Undilatable Vagina—Pelvic Tumours—Enlarged Ovaries—Vaginal Cystocele—Stone in Bladder—Vaginal Hernia—Prolapse of Rectum, or Rectocele—Scybala, or Pieces in Rectum—Svi'clling of Soft Parts—Unruptured and Imperforate Hymen— Rigidity of Perineum—Tumefaction of Labia, ... ... 226 CHAPTER XXIII. UNNATURAL LABOUR.—ORDER IV. DEFORMED PELVIS. ]’civic Diameters through which a living Child of average Size may pass—Diameter through which a Foetus maybe extracted piecemeal—Symptoms in Obstructed Labour— Treatment, ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 234 CHAPTER XXIV. OBSTETRIC OPERATIONS.—I. VERSION OR TURNING. Podalic Version—Method of Operating—Cases Suitable for —Drawbacks—Hand to be Einjiloyed—Combined Ex- ternal and Internal Method of Hicks—Difficulties and Risks of the Method—Cephalic Version—Method of Performance of—Turning by External Manipulation alone, or Plan of Wigand—How to do it—Dangers to Mother and Child in Vei’sion—After-Treatment, ... 236 CHAPTER XXV. INSTRUMENTS EMPLOYED IN LABOUR. Vectis or Lever—Fillet—Blunt Hook—Forceps, Long and Short—Statistics of Delivery by Forceps—Function, Aims and Advantages of Forceps—Drawbacks and Risks— Conditions demanding their Emplo3Tneiit—Cases suitable for^—Method of Application—Sucker-Tractor of Simpson, 251 CHAPTER XXVI. OBSTETRIC OPERATIONS.—VI. CRANIOTOMY, EMBRY0T05IY, CEPHALOTOMY. Statistics—Instruments—When necessary—Method of Ope- rating—Extraction after Perforation and Cerebral Evacua- tion—Delivery of Foetal Head, face foremost, ... ... 262