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

Date:
1870
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Credit: Lectures on obstetric operations : including the treatment of haemorrhage, and forming a guide to the management of difficult labour / by Robert Barnes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    m LECTURE V. PAOB The Forceps in Disproportion of the Pelvis—Degrees of Disproportion— Indications in Practice—The Mechanism of Labour in Contraction from Projecting Promontory—The Curve of the False Promontory— Debatable Territory on the Confines of the several Operations- Pendulous Abdomen—The Cause of Difficulty ia Pendulous Abdomen —Suspended Labour — The Mode of Management — Dystocia from Faulty Condition of the Soft Parts—Contraction of the Cervix Uteri— Eigidity — Spasm — Deviation — Hypertrophy — Cicatrix — Closure— (Edema—Thrombus—Cancer^Pibroid Tumours—The Natural Forces that Dilate the Cervix — The Artificial Dilating Agents — Vaginal Irrigation — Water-Pressure — Incisions — Eesistance offered by the Vagina, Vulva and PerinEEum . . ...... 89 LECTURE VI. Turning—Definition—The Conditions vehich determine the Nonnal Position of Fojtus—Causes of Malposition—-Frequency of Change of Position of Foetus in Utero . . .115 LECTURE VII. Turning {continued) : The Powers of Nature in dealing with Unfavourable Positions of the Child—The Truth of Denman's Account of Spon- taneous Evolution—The Mechanism of Head-Labour the Type of that of Labour with Shoulder-Presentation—The Modes in which Natiire deals with Shoulder-Presentations analogous to those in which she deals with Head-Presentations . . . . - . . .126 LECTURE VIII. Turning [continued] : Definition of Spontaneous Version and Spontaneous Evolution—Varieties of Spontaneous Version—Mechanism of Spon- taneous Version by the Breech—Spontaneous Evolution—Mechanism of, in the First Shoulder-Presentation, Dorso-anterior .... 135 LECTURE IX. Turning {continued) : Spontaneous Evolution — Mechanism of, in First Shoulder-presentation, Abdomino-auterior ; in Second Shoulder-pie- sentation, Dorso-anterior and Abdomino-anteiior—Spontaneous Evo- lution by the Head—The Mechanism of Spontaneous Version and of Spontaneous Evolution further illustrated—The Conditions Requisite for Spontaneous Version—Examples of Spontaneous Version by the Head and by the Breech