Outlines of the theory and practice of midwifery / by Alexander Hamilton, M.D. F.R.S. Edin. professor of midwifery in the University, and fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.

  • Hamilton, Alexander, 1739-1802.
Date:
1796
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Credit: Outlines of the theory and practice of midwifery / by Alexander Hamilton, M.D. F.R.S. Edin. professor of midwifery in the University, and fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    traded in a longitudinal form, to fearch for the feet, bring them down, and deliver, agreeably to the diredtions already given for that purpofe. SECTION III. ONE OR BOTH ARMS PRESENTING, AND THE HEAD FOLLOWING NEARLY IN THE SAME DIRECTION. When the child lies with the arm or flioulder prefenting, and the head more or lefs over the pubes, or refting on one fide at the brim of the pelvis, the feet towards the fundus uteri, the waters evacuated, and the uterus clofely contracted in a longitudi- nal form round the child's body, it forms one of the moft difficult cafes of preterna- tural labour*. ^Vhen the arm protrudes in this manner, it ought, if poffible, to be reduced, and the head brought down into the pelvis ; for it i.s often equally difficult and dangerous to deliver * The hiflory of an interefting cafe of this kind is detailed, p. 104. in Dr Jj^mes HAmilton's Select Cafes in Midwifery.