An essay on laborious parturition, in which the division of the symphysis pubis is particularly considered / by William Osborn, M. D. Physician and man-midwife to the General Lying-in Hospital in Store Street, and lecturer on midwifery in London.

  • William Osborn
Date:
1783
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An essay on laborious parturition, in which the division of the symphysis pubis is particularly considered / by William Osborn, M. D. Physician and man-midwife to the General Lying-in Hospital in Store Street, and lecturer on midwifery in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

    47/284 (page 25)
    cannot be comprefied at all, unlefs it be firft opened, the contents difcharged, and the bones by that means be per- mitted to collapfe. Whenever the pelvis is fo diflorted in its form, and fo contracted in its capa- city, as not to permit the head of the child to pafs unopened, it conftitutes that degree of laborious parturition, which is the particular fubjedl of this effay. Faffing by then the inferior de- grees of difficulty, where either in the iirft inflance, the powers of nature, though flowly, and with great and con^- tinued exertions, are yet ultimately equal to t]ie accomplifhment of the ^ delivery; and the next degree defcribed by fyftematic writers, as requiring the affiftance of the forceps, or ved:is ; by which the life of the child is capable of being preferved; I will endeavour to afcertain as accurately as the nature of the cafe renders pradticable, Firjlf What are the abfolute dimen- « fions of the pelvis, which in all cafes muft