Aphorisms on the application and use of the forceps and vectis : on preternatural labours, on labours attended with hemmorhage, and with convulsions.

  • Denman, Thomas, 1733-1815.
Date:
1815
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Credit: Aphorisms on the application and use of the forceps and vectis : on preternatural labours, on labours attended with hemmorhage, and with convulsions. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 13 ) many cases I have found it expedient and en- couraging to them to fix upon some distant time when they should be delivered, if the child were not before born ; six, or eight, or twelve hours, for instance. In some cases of great apprehension I have also shewn them, upon one of my knees, all that I intended to do with the forceps. The following rules are given on the pre- sumption that the head of the child presents with the face inclined or verging towards the hollow of the sacrum, and that the common short forceps are intended to be used; but if any other kind of forceps should be preferred, the rules must be adapted to the instrument. SECTION II. ]. Carry the fore finger of the right hand to the ear of the child. 2. then take the blade of thc forceps to be first introduced, by the handle in the left hand, and conduct it between the head of the child C and