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Credit: A lecture introductory to the theory and practice of midwifery. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ >5 ] ** manner, without great violence both to the Mother and the “ Child:—This Circumftance has happened to me in Pradice <c feveral times, particularly in two laborious Cafes, where the re- <c peated Application of the Blades at the fides proved ineffedual; “ and dangerous Symptoms appearing, I was afraid of further “ delay, and therefore, (the patient being placed on her fide) I <c introduced them at the Sacrum and Pubes, that is, on the Face ,c and Occiput, and extracted the head with eafe at the fjrft tf effort. ** As this Succefs was plainly owing to the Compreffion of the “ longeft part of the Head, it firft fuggefted to me the Hint of ap~ ** plying a pair of Forceps with three Blades, one of which may be “ occafionally ufed as a Lever, which will ad on the fame Princi- pie as that of Roonhuyfens. tf But not with (landing the teeming Simplicity of Roonhuyfen5 ** Lever, it may be attended with the utmoft Danger; for, as the (t Symphyfis of the Pubes is the Centre from which it ads, and “ the Point upon which the whole Strefs is laid, whenever much “ force is applied to bring down the head, (Adion and Re-adion 4* being the fame) the Vagina, Neck of the Bladder, and nervous (t Farts may be fo violently bruifed, as to occafion a Mortifi- “ cation, or even the very Symphyfis of the Pubes may happen to ** give way. “ To remedy this Inconvenience, which is the principal Objec- l< tion to the Lever, I have, for fome Years paft, in my Courfe of Ledures on Midwifery, recommended an Injlrument confijling of tc three Blades, being, in fad nothing more than a Pair of long “ Forceps with a double Curve, and the Addition of a Lever, “ which may be applied without the leaf: danger of hurting the “ Mother j for here the Fulcrum of the Lever is removed from the <s Pubes to the 'Jundlion of the two Blades, which not only ad as a “ Pair of Forceps, but at the fame time afford a firm refting Point “ for](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21522509_0129.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
