Aphorisms Illustrating Natural and Difficult Cases of Accouchement (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tone of the parts, and subjects the woman to an hopeless incontinence of urine. xcvn. Endeavor to tranquillize the mind in every case of parturition; for by the violent emotions it preternaturally excites, the whole frame becomes disturbed, and compelled to act with an increase of energy. xcvm. And from the influence it possesses over the parts concerned in child- bearing, the action of any power in the constitution may be suspended, or induced to act with irregularity.; Ord. II. Dystocia Perversa.-Malposition ofthehead. XCIX. If the face presents to the pubes and the occiput to the sacrum of the mother, the labor will so terminate, the truecapacity of the pelvis being unimpaired, and the fetal head of ordinary dimensions. If such a presentation can be discovered before the membranes break, the vertex may be easily turned round to the hollow of the sacrum, by introducing the fingers between the side of the head and the symphysis pubis. The head being excluded in thisdirec- tion, the perinaeum requires to be attentively guarded, the parts having frequently been lacerated in women who have borne many children. When the reciprocal proportion between the head and the pelvis is perverted, the pains become powerless or unprofitable, or there are other obstacles that would have retarded the most favorable presentation, it is required topromote the delivery with one blade of the forceps, as the most convenient assistant under such circumstances. If the head be low in the pelvis, and the hand or arm protrude therewith, nature has sufficient power in a well formed pelvis and relaxed soft parts; for the expulsion of the child. If the elbow descends with the head, the fore arm being reflected back upon the humerus, the labor will be difficult; but more...