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.

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

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    tell what was the matter with her; but, that fhe had been in as bad pain, at times, for three or four tl days and nights part, and had never been able *' to get any fleep for it: I advifed her to go to bed, which fiie complied with ; and then permitting me to touch her, in time of a pain, I found 14 the os tinea open, to the breadth of half a ** crown; the waters pufhing down in form of a gut; and, when the pain receded, the head very * high up, and retting upon the brim of the pelvis: foon after (he was in bed, her pains became very ftrong, and almoft continual; and the membranes breaking, the waters were difcharged in large quantities; the head came lower down, was preffed into a conical form, and the bones protiuded over one ano- ther; which not only led me to fufpetft an ** ill-fhapen pelvis, but, I was further confirmed 41 in this belief, by feeling the tuberofities of the °Jfa ifchij Projc& t0° near t0 eacn other : * When the woman continues in labour a long while, and although the os Wica is greatly di ated, flill the head of the child remains very high up, the labour generally proves of the difficult kind. the