The obstetrician's vademecum; or aphorisms on natural and difficult parturition; the application and use of instruments in preternatural labours; on labours complicated with hemorrhage, convulsions, etc / Considerably Augmented and arranged according to the present state of obstetricy, by Michael Ryan.
- Thomas Denman
- Date:
- 1836
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The obstetrician's vademecum; or aphorisms on natural and difficult parturition; the application and use of instruments in preternatural labours; on labours complicated with hemorrhage, convulsions, etc / Considerably Augmented and arranged according to the present state of obstetricy, by Michael Ryan. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![to the present time, that when the head of the foetus presented, the face was turned to the posterior part of the pelvis; yet from Sir Fielding Ould’s observation, as well as from some late hae tion of the gravid uterus, and what I myself have observed in practice, I am led to believe, that the head presents for the most part at the brim of the pelvis, as is here delineated, with one ear to the pubes and the other to the os sa- crum; though sometimes this may vary, according to the form of the head, as well as that of the pelvis. [All modern obstetricians are of this opinion, and it was first delivered by Sir Fielding Ould, pean to the Dublin Lying-in Hospital. M. R.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3328653x_0237.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
