Obstetric operations, including the treatment of haemorrhage / by Robert Barnes ... with additions by Benjamin F. Dawson.

  • Barnes, Robert, 1817-1907.
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Credit: Obstetric operations, including the treatment of haemorrhage / by Robert Barnes ... with additions by Benjamin F. Dawson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    LECTURE V. PAGE The Forceps in Disproportion of the Pelvis—Degrees of Disproportion— Indications in Practice—The Mechanism of Labour in Contraction from Projecting Promontory—The Curve of the False Promontory— Debatable Territory on the Confines of the several Operations— Pendulous Abdomen—The Cause of Difficulty in Pendulous Abdomen —Suspended Labour—The Mode of Management — Dystocia from Faulty Condition of the Soft Parts—Contraction of the Cervix Uteri— Kigidity — Sj)asm — Deviation — Hypertrophy — Cicatrix — Closure— Oedema—Thrombus—Cancer—Fibroid Tumours—The Natural Forces that Dilate the Cervix — The Artificial Dilating Agents — Vaginal Irrigation — Water-Pressure — Incisions—Resistance offered by the Vagina, Vulva and Perinseum , .70 LECTURE VL Turning—Definition—The Conditions which determine the Normal Position of Foetus—Causes of Malposition—Frequency of Change of Position of Foetus in Utero 90 LECTURE VIL Turning (continued): The Powers of Nature in dealing with Unfavourable Positions of the Child—The Truth of Denman's Account of Spon-. taneous Evolution—The Mechanism of Head-Labour the Type of that of Labour with Shoidder-Presentation—The Modes in which Nature deals with Shoulder-Presentations analogous to those in which she deals with Head-Presentations ........ 100 LECTURE VIIL Turning {continued) : Definition of Spontaneous Version and Spontaneous Evolution—Varieties of Spontaneous Version—Mechanism of Spon- taneous Version by the Breech—Spontaneous Evolution-—Mechanism of, in the First Shoulder-Presentation, Dorso-anterior, . . . 107 LECTURE IX. Turning (continued): Spontaneous Evolution — Mechanism of, in First Shoulder-presentation, Abdomino-anterior; in Second Shoulder-pre- sentation, Dorso-anterior and Abdomino-anterior—Spontaneous Evo- lution by the Head—The Mechanism of Spontaneous Version and of Spontaneous Evolution further illustrated—The Conditions Requisite for Spontaneous Version—Examples of Spontaneous Version by the Head and by the Breech 118