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| pain, tried to bring the head lower,
and turn the forhead backwards to the Sacrum. But, in the attempt,
the instrument began to slip, so that I was obliged to unlock them, and
move each blade upwards again over the ears; the handles being fixed and
tied with a garter, I turned the patient on her back, and directed an assistant
on each side to support the legs: matters being thus disposed, I waited
for a pain, and gradually delivered as in the former cases. The child, whose
head was squeezed into a lengthened form, seemed at first to be in a convulsion,
but soon recovered, in conswquence of my letting the Funis discharge
about two or three spoonfuls of blood. |
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| In March 1746, I was called by a
midwife to a case resembling the former, and tried the whalebone fillet.
(Vide. Tab. XXXVIII.) which I could not get over the chin; so that finding
the principal hold was on the face, I withdrew it, and waiting some tome,
until the patient and the pains grew weaker, I applied the forceps, with
which I delivered as in the other cases of this collection. |
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