Obstetrics for nurses / by Joseph B. De Lee.

  • De Lee, Joseph B. (Joseph Bolivar), 1869-1942.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Obstetrics for nurses / by Joseph B. De Lee. 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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    We choose arbitrarily a prominent point in the pre- senting part from which to determine the relation of the presenting part to the four quadrants of the pelvis. This Fig 60—The four positions of occipital presentation. point is called the point of direction. In vertex presentations the point of direction is the occiput; in breech presentations, the sacrum ; in face presentations, the chin ; in shoulder presentations, the scapula.