A set of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment of the practice of midwifery : with a view to illustrate a treatise on that subject, and collection of cases / by William Smellie, M.D.

  • Smellie, William, 1697-1763.
Date:
1797
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Credit: A set of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment of the practice of midwifery : with a view to illustrate a treatise on that subject, and collection of cases / by William Smellie, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE THIRTY-FIFTH TABLE Shews, in a lateral view cf the Pelvis, the me- thod of affiiting the Delivery of the Head of the Fcetus with the long curved Forceps, in preternatural Cafes, when it cannot be done with the hands, as defcribed in Tables XXIX. and XXX. A The three loweft vertebra of the loins, with the os facrum and coccyx. B The os pubis of the left fide. CC The perinaum and anus prefTed back- wards with the forceps. D The intejUncs. EE The parietes of the abdomen, FFF The uterus. G The pofterior part of the os uteri. H The retlum. I The vagina. After the body and arms of the child arc delivered, and the different methods ufed to bring down the head with the hands, as direded jn the above Table, and more fully defcribed in Vol. I. and III. the following method is to be tried in order to fave the child, which muft otherwife be loft by overftraining the neck and fpinal marrow. The woman being in the fu- pine pofition, as in Table XXIV. one of the affiftants ought to hold the body and arms of