Aphorisms on the application and use of the forceps and vectis, on preternatural labours, on labours attended with hemorrhage, and with convulsions / by Thomas Denman.

  • Denman, Thomas, 1733-1815.
Date:
1817
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Credit: Aphorisms on the application and use of the forceps and vectis, on preternatural labours, on labours attended with hemorrhage, and with convulsions / by Thomas Denman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    same slow and cautious manner, till the loci reaches the peririceum, using at the same time I certain degree of extracting force. 7. The subsequent actions must be from hand# to handle, or occasionally by simple traction# but the action of that blade which was towards thi pubes, must be stronger and more extensile throughout the operation, than the action with thy other blade, which has no fulcrum to support it. 8. By a repetition of these actions, always rected according to the position of the handle#] 'with their force increased, diminished, or contt ■nued, according to the exigence of the case, vt 'shall in a'short time? perceive the head of the chi descending. 9. When the’head begins to descend, the for< of the action with the forceps must be abated, aa as that advances the direction of the handles mu change by degrees more and more to each sid and towards the pubes. 10. The lower the bead of the child descend ‘the‘more gently we must proceed, in order lo pir vent any injury or laceration of the perincrum external pmts, which are likewise to be supports in the same manner as in a natural labour. 11. In some eases, tire mere excitement oces sioned by the application of the forceps, or t very expectation of their being applied, will brii> on a return or an increase of the pains sufficie to expel the child without their assistance. 12. In other cases we are obliged to-exert ve considerable force, and to continue it for a lo> time; so that one operation may be safely a easily finished in twenty minutes, or even a 1»