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

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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$SECTION ix. I am induced to reprint tlie following, as the; I were the very cases which first gave me an oppojli tunity of observing the spontaneous evolution. I CASE I. continuance, I perceived the shoulder of tj| In the year 1772, I was called to a poor woma in Oxford Street, who had been in labour all tk preceding night, under the care of a midwifi Mr. Kingston, now living in Charlotte Street, an Mr. Goodwin, surgeon, at Wirksworth in Derb; shire, who were at that time students in mi. wifery,had been sent for some hours before I w; called. The arm of the child presenting, tilt attempted to turn and extract it by the feet, b« the pains were so strong as to prevent the intr duction of the hand into the uterus. I found tl arm much swelled, and pushed through the extai nal parts in such a manner that the should i nearly reached the perinceum. The woman stru gled vehemently with her pains, and, during th« child to descend. Concluding that the child \u f small, and would pass, doubled, through thepe, I desired one of the gentlemen to sit down to 1 ceive it, but the friends of the woman would r permit me to move. I remained by the bed-si|j till the child was expelled, and I was very m$