Compendium of operative midwifery, or the manual of instrumental operations of preternatural labours reduced to the greatest simplicity : preceded by an investigation of the mechanism of natural labour / from the French of Julius Hatin by Richard Tuite.

  • Hatin, Jules, -1839. Manoeuvre de tous les accouchemens contre nature. English
Date:
1828
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    iund and the thumb placed in the hollow of the axilla; then, without abandoning his hold, he pushes forward the index linger as far as possible, forces the member to pass over the curve of the sacrum, and extracts it in the same manner as the preceding. The two superior extremities now disengaged, the ac- coucheur introduces the whole of the right hand as high as the face, and places two fingers on each side of the nose; at the same time he glides the index and middle finger of the left hand along the back of the child to the occiput; then, drawing towards him with the hand placed on the face, at the same time that he pushes with the two fingers placed on the occiput, he thus effects the flexion of the head upon the ■;hest. Without deranging his hands, he draws the head down to the inferior strait, directing it in the axis of the su- perior strait. Then, placing the index and middle fingers of the left hand transversely upon the mastoid apophysis of the right side, and the same fingers of the right hand transverse- ly upon the left side of the chin, he causes the head to exe- cute its rotary motion ; and, by lateral and elevating mo- tions, he directs it in the axis of the inferior strait, and thus completes its delivery. When the head is on the point of escaping, the left hand must be carried before the perineum and under the head, to support these two parts. At the same time he glides his right hand upon the breech of the foetus, and when the birth is completed, he places the child across the parts of generation. Second position of the feet. Principal relations. The heels correspond to the right cotyloid cavity, and the toes to 'he left sacro-iliac symphysis. Signs which characterise the position. The soles of the
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