Lectures on obstetric operations : including the treatment of hæmorrhage and forming a guide to the management of difficult labour / by Robert Barnes.

  • Barnes, Robert, 1817-1907.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Lectures on obstetric operations : including the treatment of hæmorrhage and forming a guide to the management of difficult labour / by Robert Barnes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the modes of using the instrument. I believe that this subject is treated more fully and more accurately than has hitherto been done. In discussing what can be done by the forceps, and by turning, and by the proceedings for provoking and accelerating labour, I have striven earnestly to extend the range and applications of these conservative means, and to restrict within the narrowest limits the resort to the sacrificial operations. Pursuing a similar leading principle, that of giving to the mother the precedence over her unborn child which is her right, I have next sought to secure to her the highest degree of safety. This I do by showing that by the improved operations for lessening the bulk of the foetus, as by the craniotomy-forceps, the use of a cephalotribe at once powerful and compact like those of Simpson, Kidd, and Braxton Hicks, and by my new operation for reducing the head by sections by the wire-ecraseur, we may limit the Caesarian section to those extremely rare cases in which the pelvis measures less than one inch and a half in the con- jugate diameter. A treatise on operative obstetrics cannot be com- plete without a description of the methods of dealing with haemorrhage. I have, therefore, added new Lec- tures upon this deeply important subject. My Lettsomian Lectures have been some time out of print, and I have thought it more convenient to incorporate in this volume a compendious view of my matured opinions on the subject of placenta praevia than to comply with the demand of my publisher for another edition. When I first ventured to put forth my views of the physiology and treatment of placenta praevia, I did so on the conviction of their truth, derived from careful observation at the bedside and