Volume 1

Cases in midwifery : with references, quotations, and remarks ? / by William Perfect, surgeon, of West-Malling, in Kent.

  • Perfect, William, 1737-1809.
Date:
[1781]-1783
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Credit: Cases in midwifery : with references, quotations, and remarks ? / by William Perfect, surgeon, of West-Malling, in Kent. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 283 ] I endeavoured to introduce a finger on each fide of them, as far as the axilla; which, after fome difficulty, was effefled, but, to no purpofe; for the fhoulders continued immoveable, notwithflanding the moll violent and extraordinary pains, and, in vain were my efforts to bring them forward, till I had recourfe to the blunt hook; by the affiftance of which, they were alternately brought down, and delivered: the hips made fome refinance, and the placenta, which foon after came away, was exceed- ing large; being, in diameter, almoft eight inches, and two inches thick; befides which, between the ramifications of its velfels, it was, in fome parts, cornuous; and, in others, perfectly carti- laginous ; which extraordinary conformation might, probably, in fome meafure, obft.ru£l the vital circulation of the fatus, and occafion its death: the head of this child, although enlarged by putrefaction, was not of an uncommon fize; but, the breadth of its body, at the fhoul- ders, from whence proceeded the principal diffi- culty, was nearly eight inches, and a quarter; and, at the breech, it meafured between feven and