A collection of preternatural cases and observations in midwifery : compleating the design of illustrating his first volume, on that subject / by William Smellie.

  • Smellie, William, 1697-1763.
Date:
1766
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Credit: A collection of preternatural cases and observations in midwifery : compleating the design of illustrating his first volume, on that subject / by William Smellie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CAL S.E. VI. A jaborious one; the Uzerus contracted be- fore the frenilens of the Fetus. A midwife fent for me to an acquaintance of hers, at one of the work-houfes, who had been five days.in labour, and was neglected by the furgeon and midwife of the houfe, in the year 1743. ~The midwife told me, dae the had been with her all night; that fhe had loft a great . deal of blood; and that fhe thought the child was dead, as the woman had not felt it ftir for two days. On examining, I felt the head low down in the Pelvis ; but as fhe was fo very weak, I de- fired the furgeon might be {ent for, Wwhé was not to be found. As there was {till more danger in delaying longer, I thought it a pity to refufe giving all the afliftance poffible. I firft tried to deli- ver with the Forceps, but was furprifed that I did not fucceed, when I found the head was not large, the inftrument fo eafily introduced, and firmly fixed. Not fucceeding in the above method, I - opened the head, and, in trying to deliver it with the afliftanceof my fingers and the blunt hook on the infide of the fKull, I could not, with allmy ftrength, bring it along. How- ever,