The Dublin practice of midwifery / by Henry Maunsell.

  • Henry Maunsell
Date:
1856
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    ble of being carried to a considerable extent. Direct lateral inclination is only admitted to a slight degree, and rotation can be carried just so far as to allow of the chin resting on the shoulder, but not farther without endangering the child's safety. We have spoken of variations from the natm'al form and average size of the pelvic passage, and •we shall also be able to detect similar deviations from the standard in the head of the foetus. It may, for instance, be very small, which of course •will have no effect, except to facilitate its expul- sion. It may, on the other hand, be very large, and if it be so, disproportionately with the size of the pelvis, diflScult labour will he the conseqiience, and it is even possible that the use of instruments may be neccssaiy. On this point, however, it is proper to think with caution, as the extraordinary change of shape which may be effected on the head by compression, will often suffice to counter- balance even a considerable disproportion of size. The head is occasionally enlarged, -while in the womb, by hy(b'ocephalus, and may require dimi- imtion by means of instruments: the head of a dead foetus is also sometimes swollen by the air disengaged during putrefaction. A peculiar form of head is not i:ery rarely met with, in ■which the upper portion of the cranium is malformed, and partly deficient, and the place of the braiu
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