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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![the infant to the back of the mother, (see Plate XIV.,) or the reverse, the abdomen of the infant to that of the mother, or either hip of the infant to the sacro-iliac joint of the mother, or either in- fantile hip to the ilium of the mother, or in the transverse diameter of the brim of the pelvis. In all these cases the rule is to turn the hip of the infant to either sacro-iliac joint of the mother at the brim of the pelvis, and to the pubes and sacrum at the outlet, thus adapting the long dia- meter of the infantile pelvis to that of the maternal. Others advise that the abdomen of the infant should be turned to the back of the mother, or that so soon as the body is expelled in the oppo- site position, the abdomen of the infant ought to be turned to the back of the mother, as in this position the arms and head pass more readily. When the body is extracted to the arms, the abdomen ought to be turned to the back of the mother, and the arms brought down as hereafter described in the section on version or turning. I have deemed it necessary to prefix the preceding account of natural parturition, according to which all obstetric operations, except the Cesarean sec- tion and transfusion, are performed. I have given the latest views on the subject. M. R.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3328653x_0039.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
