The Western Homoeopathic Observer Volume 6 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...mental diameter, she overlaps its bones, she compresses it. Forceps should do the same thing--traction alone does it to a certain degree, but I think the head will also allow safely, compression with the forceps. Certainly, it must be done slowly and carefully; the blades must not bo applied and rudely pressed together, any more than the child should be drawn from the mother by mere bTute force, but compression should be applied gradually, slowly during the pains, taking off pressure during the interval. This may seem to many to be unorthodox doctrine; but I am writing of my own knowledge and not from authors, and am satisfied that we can, in this way, many times deliver our patients more safely, with less suffering, and with less frequent perineal injury than where forceps are employed only as tractors. Forceps. Reviews. The Thermometry Gateways To The Pole--Surface Currents of the Ocean, and the Influence of the latter upon the Climates of the World. By Silas Bent, Esq. St. Louis, 1869. The above is the title of a lecture delivered before the St. Louis Historical Society, and, by request, before the Mercantile Library Association of this city, which has caused a great sensation in the scientific world. The author, Mr. Bent, is an accomplished navigator and experienced seaman, and is well known in scientific circles as the delineator of that remarkable stream in the Pacific ocean, the Kuro-Siwo, (see chart, ) which is so analogous in the flow, temperature and direction of its waters to the gulf stream in the Atlantic. Mr. Bent was, for a quarter of a century, upon the ocean, and has visited every quarter of the globe lying between the Arctic and Antarctic circles. In 1848 he was navigator of the U. S. ship Preble, when she was ordered from California on spe..