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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    and eight inches. The woman was eafy after delivery, refted well at night, and, at the end of the month, was perfectly recovered; fhe had, before, borne two children, which were both very large and healthy. To account for the puffibility of the ffjoulders of this width, being delivered as they were; it may be neceffary to confider, the great compreffion, which they are capable of fuf- taining, by which means their pafTage is facili- tated.—mauriceau has a moft remarkable, and extraordinary cafe of this kind, which happened to him whilft he pracYifed midwifery in the Ho- tel de Dieu, in the year 1660. Vide lib. ii. p. 198.—giffard, in cafe 150. relates the very- great difficulty, which occurred to him from the largenefs of the fhoulders, after the head had been brought forward, and delivered by means of his extraclor: the child, he fays, was born alive; but, about two hours after, was feized with a convulfion fit, in which it died: and, cafe 183. of the fame author, contains the relation of a fimilar difficulty, in which the child was born alive, and did well. — la mottf. fpeaks of a delivery of