A synopsis of the various kinds of difficult parturition : with practical remarks on the management of labours / ... With notes and additions, by Thomas C. James.
- Samuel Merriman
- Date:
- 1816
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A synopsis of the various kinds of difficult parturition : with practical remarks on the management of labours / ... With notes and additions, by Thomas C. James. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![c. The os uteri projected forwards, above the symphysis pubis. 1. The lateral obliquity of the uterus (a) can scarcely prove a cause of difficult labour; an erect posture will, if the pelvis be well formed, speedily rectify this displacement. [Or laying on the opposite side to the obliquity.] 2. The os uteri, tilted backwards towards the projection of the sacrum (b), is not a very unusual occurrence in women with wide pelves, and it almost always occasions a slow labour. Young practitioners are apt to be embarrass- ed, when they find the uterus thus situated: for upon an examination per vaginam, the pelvis at first seems to be filled up by the head of the child making a rapid advance towards delivery. A more accurate examination, however, shows that the part, in contact with the finger, is not the naked head of the child, but the anterior](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21140790_0082.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
