Lectures on obstetric operations : including the treatment of hæmorrhage, and forming a guide to the management of difficult labour / by Robert Barnes.

  • Robert Barnes
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1886
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Credit: Lectures on obstetric operations : including the treatment of hæmorrhage, and forming a guide to the management of difficult labour / by Robert Barnes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LECTURE \I. PAGE Tlie Forceps in Disproportion of the Pelvis : Degrees of Disproportion : Indi- cations in Practice—The Mechanism of Labour in Contraction from Pro- jecting Promontory: Tlie Curve of the False Promontory—Debatable Territory on the Confines of the several Oj^erations—Pendulous Abdomen : the Cause of Difficulty in Pendulous Abdomen : Susjjended Labour ; the Mode of Management ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 69 LECTURE YII. Dystocia from Faulty Condition of the Soft Parts—Contraction of the Cervix Uteri—Rigidity — Spasm—D e viation—Hypertrophy—Cicatrix—Closure— (Edema—Thrombus—Cancer—Fibroid Tumours—The Xatural Forces that Dilate the Cervix—The Artificial Dilating Agents—The Hydrostatic Dilator —Agents which moderate Uterine Action or Resistance—Chloroform— Chloral — Opium — Nitrite of Amyl—Physostigma—Tartar Emetic— Bleeding—Vaginal Irrigation—Ergot—Dilatation by Hand : by Water- pressure : by Incision—Resistance ofiered by the Vagina, Vulva, and Perinseum ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 77 LECTURE VIIL Turning—Definition—The Conditions Avhich determine the Xormal Position of Fcetus—Properties of the Fcetus, Living and Dead—Causes of Malposition —Frequency of Change of Position of Foetus in Utero—The Povrers of Nature in dealing Avith Unfavourable Positions of the Child—Denman's Account of the Spontaneous Evolution of the Child—The Mechanism of Head-labour the type of that of Labour vvith Shoulder-presentation ... 87 LECTURE IX. Definition of Spontaneous Version and Spontaneous Evolution—Shoulder- presentation, how produced—Varieties of Spontaneous Version—Mechanism of Spontaneous Version by the Breech—Spontaneous Evolution—Mechanism of, in the First Shoulder-presentation, Dorso-Anterior—Mechanism in Abdomino-anterior Position — Spontaneous Evolution by the Head — Mechanism of Spontaneous Version and Spontaneous Evolution further Illustrated—The Conditions requisite for Spontaneous Version—Examples of Spontaneous Version by Head ... ... ... ... ... ... 98 LECTURE X. Ap])lications of the Knowledge of the Mechanism of Spontaneous Version and Spontaneous Evolution to the Practice of Artificial Version and Artificial Evolution—The Bi-Polar Method of Turning, History of—Artificial Version by the Head—Reason why Version by the Breech is commonly preferred— Illustrations of Head-turning, or Correction of the Presentation, before and during Labour in obliquity of the Uterus and Fcetus—Shoulder- presentation—Forehead and Face Presentations—Descent of Hand with Head—Descent of Umbilical Cord ... ... ... ... ... ...115