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Credit: A lecture introductory to the theory and practice of midwifery. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ «8 ] at the upper part of the Pelvis; if this is not your meaning, the cafe you allude to muft be a headlefs cafe, a cafe without a head *—a very piteous cafe indeed, and fuch as probably never happened to any one except Dr 'Thomas Denman. You proceed—My reafon for preferring the fir eight Forceps is a conviblion that this opinion is true, and that under thefe circumfances the curvilinear Forceps become inconvenient. Your reafon is a conviction that this Opinion is true :—A very curious reafon indeed j but I fhall fay no more on this paffage, left I make a miftake; for I confefs *tis far too fublime for my comprehenfion. Again, you fay—I know enough of the Hifory of the Veftes, in as able hands as Roonhuyfen s, to convince any reafonable man, that much mifchtef may, and has been done by them. For this very reafon Dr. Leake has contrived a Lever of VeCtes, which occafionally combined with the Forceps, will produce all the effects of a Lever without the leaft danger of hurting the Mother. Thus you proceed—Roonhuyfen’j VeSles changes its centre of aStion, and though it may be fxed againjl the Symphyfis of the Rubes, the Ramus of the Ifchium, near the obtufe procefs, mujl become the Ful- crum, or you will not be able to extract the head. Here it is prefumed you meant to have faid ignoramus, and that by fomc unaccountable blunder of the Printer’s, the word Ramus unluckily flipt in. You tell us that—The reffting Point is not particularly where the hind head prejfes againjl the Pubes ; but that the head is wedged and prejfes on many Points. You feem here to have forgot what every Practitioner in Mid- wifery ought particularly to remember, viz. that the Brim of the Pelvis is an Ellipfis from fide to fide, and meafured in that direc- tion, is _one inch wider than from Sacrum to Pubes; and confe-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21522509_0132.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
