An analysis of the section of the symphysis of the ossa pubis : as recommended in cases of difficult labour and deformed pelvis, by Doctor Alphonse le Roy, professor of midwifery at Paris / by James Rymer.
- Remey, James.
- Date:
- 1783
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An analysis of the section of the symphysis of the ossa pubis : as recommended in cases of difficult labour and deformed pelvis, by Doctor Alphonse le Roy, professor of midwifery at Paris / by James Rymer. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![E 2^ 3 piore Gonfequence to foclety, than that of the fcEtus in utero. Be that as it may, Mr. Sou^ fhoty we are told, requefted the advice and af- fiftance of Doctor LeRoy in behalf of his poor wife. W.e afterwards find, by the declaration of Mrs. previous to this operation, that flic had had four painful labours.” Why, thence, for God’s fake, would any man deter-, mine, for the plea of having a living child, to cleave afunder th,e bones of this unfortunate body, at the natural rilk of her exiftence ? Be-, paufe, quoth Doftor LeRoy^ t)ie diameter from tjle anterior to the pofterior part of the pelvis, did not exceed two inches and a half j and the child’s head, in utero, meafured at leaft: three inches and a quarter. We fliould be glad to know how the Dodor managed to apply his rule from pubis to facrum, in a pelvis contain- ing the gravid uterus. He makes no mention how much the diameter of a foetus’s head fhall be diminifhed by the bones of the cranium flip- ping and Aiding and lapping over one another. In I]jort, it appears Doftor Le Roy was deter- mined the operation fhould be done. He fays, “ the moment the feparation was completed, the pubes as if the firing of a bow had been divided “—Kerrrijh .'—’’and receded to each fide under the integuments.” What a ripping, fwalhing.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22391708_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
