The Dublin practice of midwifery / by Henry Maunsell.

  • Henry Maunsell
Date:
1856
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Credit: The Dublin practice of midwifery / by Henry Maunsell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    extreme that the canal is compressed into a T- shaped slit. In some cases the capacity of the aperture will be much diminished at one side, whUe, at the other, little or no alteration will be observable. It is said, that in many cases the de- formity will actually increase after every successive labour, and that the act of partmntion, which was, perhaps, at first only difficult, may, after some repetitions, become absolutely impossible Avithout artificial aid. The pelvis, without being deformed, is in some instances unusually small, and should the foetus then happen to be disproportionately large, it is obvious that the same effects must be produced, as if the passage was viorbidly diminished in size. On the other hand, we have said, that the pehds may deviate from the standard in having an exces- sive capacity, in which case the attendant incon- veniences will be, liability to retroversion and prolapsus of the uterus, and to sudden unexpected delivery. The dimensions, and other characters just men- tioned, can all be easily enoiigh ascertained upon the diy bones, but when we come to inquu'c into them in the li^dng body, we find it quite another alFaii'. With the view of assisting the inquiiy, several instruments have been invented, the most remarkable of which are—the pelnmeter of Cou- touli, and the callipers of Baudelocqiie. The lal-
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