A Compendious System of Midwifery Chiefly Designed to Facilitate the Inquiries
A Compendious System of Midwifery Chiefly Designed to Facilitate the Inquiries
William Dewees
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740. A necessity for turning existing, the woman is to be placed, SECOND AND THIRD PRESENTATIONS. 273 as already directed for preternatural labours; (732, &c. ) and the left hand properly prepared, must be introduced into the vaghia, with the thumb looking towards the symphysis pubis; the hand must be placed, so as to grasp the head with the fingers on one side, and the thumb upon the other — it is then to be raised in the axis of the superior strait, and placed in the left iliac fossa, where i...t must be retained by the wrist and forearm, while the fingers are made to travel over the left side of the child, which will be towards the posterior part of the uterus, until they get possession of the feet — these are to be brought, as already directed, as far as the middle of the vagina; when thus far, it frequently happens, that their farther progress is arrested by the breech not descend- ing; and the breech is prevented from descending, by the head having slipped from the iliac fossa, where it had been placed in the commencement of the operation.
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