Copy 1, Volume 3

A treatise on the theory and practice of midwifery / [William Smellie].

  • William Smellie
Date:
1756-1764
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Credit: A treatise on the theory and practice of midwifery / [William Smellie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    COLLECTION XXXI. [Vide Vol. I. Book 3. Chap. 3. Se£i. 5.] Laborious Cafes, in which the head of the child prefented, and the child was delivered with the aflifi¬ ance of the hand, blunt hook, or crotchet. * ' • [Vide Anatomical Figures,Tab. 12,16,and 28; alfo 39.] CASE 1. - t A Dropfical Head opened with the Sciflars, delivered by the labour pains, with the affiftance of the hand, 1746. * tx * * EARLY in the morning, a midwife fent for me to a poor woman, and allowed me to bring one of my pupils as an alliftant. The patient had been dll night in ftrong labour, and, after the membranes were broke, the midwife alfo told me, that fhe fufpected the head prefented wrong, hav¬ ing found the Fontanel turned to the Pubis*