Parturition and its difficulties : with clinical illustrations and statistics of 13,783 deliveries / by John Hall Davis.

  • Davis, John Hall.
Date:
1865
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Parturition and its difficulties : with clinical illustrations and statistics of 13,783 deliveries / by John Hall Davis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

    11/390
    ment and Varieties of Modem Forceps-Construction to be observed in a good pair of Forceps-Then- ap- plication in the different positions when the Head is arrested at the Pelvic Brim or Outlet, viz., Long and Short Forceps-The Vcdis its only Legitimate Use as rn . 39-7(5 a Tractor CHAPTER V. Turning as a Means of Obviating Craniotomy in Deformity of Pelvic Brim.—Its value in certain cases undoubted—The Bimanual Method, when practicable, as also the aid of Chloroform, deprives the operation of much of the former objections raised to it on the ground of risk to the Mother CHAPTER VI. Induction of Premature Labour, its History and Esta- blishment ; its Indications ; the Different Methods divisible into Two Kinds—viz., 1. In the First the Object is to preserve the Liquor Amnii, for its protecting and aiding Influence in Labour. 2. In the Second, the Waters of the Ovum are artificially discharged.—The First to be preferred for obvious reasons, when contraction of the genital canal calls for Induction; the Second to be reserved for the arrest of profuse Flooding, and for Cases of Disproportion, where the first has entirely failed ... 81-88 CHAPTER VII. Delivery by Craniotomy, its Indications, Limits, the Instruments employed—Precautions—Details of the opera-