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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    CHAP. II. THE rCETUS. We may now advantageously turn otir attention to the properties of the foetus^ so far as they re- late to its passage through the pehdc canal. While in the womb, the various parts of the child are packed together in such a manner as to occupy the least possible space, forming a mass somewhat of an oval shape. The head is flexed, so as to bring the chin upon the thorax, the arms are applied to the sides, and the forearms and hands flexed and applied, often crossing each other, to the breast; the thighs are flexed on the abdomen, and the legs upon the thighs, the feet often, like the hands, crossing each other. In this way the head forms one extremity of the oval we have mentioned, while the other is composed of the feet and nates. The foetus, we are to observe, is somewhat flexible in a lateral direction, very much so ante- ■riorly, and but little posteriorly. The parts of it
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