A practical treatise on midwifery, containing the result of sixteen thousand six hundred and fifty-four births occurring in the Dublin Lying-in Hospital, during a period of seven years, commencing November 1826 / [Robert Collins].
- Robert Collins
- Date:
- 1835
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A practical treatise on midwifery, containing the result of sixteen thousand six hundred and fifty-four births occurring in the Dublin Lying-in Hospital, during a period of seven years, commencing November 1826 / [Robert Collins]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![in my opinion the one never can be substituted for the other without exposing the patient unjustifiably to great danger; as, where the case will admit of the forceps, according to the rules stated by those who have had most experience, no man possessing’ a practical knowledge of midwifery, would even think of using the perforator ; and he who uses the forceps under other circumstances, will find reason to regret much he had the misfortune to do so, and his patients will regret still more they had the mis- fortune to employ him. Four of the 24 women delivered in the Hospital, with the forceps, died—not, however, from any injury connected with the actual delivery. Hight of the children were still-born. Sixteen of the 24 were males. Lighteen of the 24 were first children. The following Table shews the duration of labour in each: thus 1 woman was 4 hours, and so on. In one case of hemorrhage the patient was delivered without delay, and in another it was the second child of a twin birth :— 40 A ] 5 l ) ] 8 l Hours in labour, 10 ] 1] 12 16 2 18 24 28 2 32 36 35 48 30 No. of Women, I 2 The only means of effecting delivery, where the disproportion between the head of the child and the pelvis is so great as to prevent us reaching the ear with the finger, is by reducing the size of the head](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33284866_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
