How to use the forceps : With an introductory account of the female pelvis and of the mechanism of delivery / By Henry G. Landis ... Rev. and enl. by Charles H. Bushong.

  • Landis, Henry G. (Henry Gardner), 1848-1886.
Date:
1894
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Credit: How to use the forceps : With an introductory account of the female pelvis and of the mechanism of delivery / By Henry G. Landis ... Rev. and enl. by Charles H. Bushong. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    stantiated all that is there claimed for this method. The head passed under the symphysis pubis with ease. The precautions of resting between pains with the for- ceps unlocked, to release the head from all pressure, was carefully observed. As the perineum began to act the handles were made to sweep forward and upward, thus holding the head from falling backward, as it is inclined to. This dropping of the head as soon as it is expelled from the vagina, causes more ruptures of peri- nei than the use of forceps. In this case the instru- ments retained the fetal head between the blades, until the handles reached the abdomen of the mother. The birth of the shoulders was not hurried, and another danger to the perineum was reduced to the smallest item possible. The fetus was delivered in about forty minutes from the time the introduction of the forceps was begun. There was no mark to be found anywhere upon the fetal head, and the perineum was not even nicked. At no time was the traction employed so great as to require either the patient or the surgeon to be braced either against the bed or by a third person, i This woman has been seen and examined a number of times, since the delivery above described, and she is as well, in all respects, as she was before the labor began. The child is also alive and in perfect health. No marks from the forcep blades could be found on the head at birth. Case II.—Mrs. S. M. , age 21 years. Primipara.