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CASE III.
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| In the year 1745, in the morning,
called by a midwife to a woman who had been four and twenty hours in labour
of her first child. I found the mouth of the womb largely open, the waters
pushing down the membranes in a large globular figure, and as the violence
of the pain abated, I felt the child’s head resting at the upward part
of the Os Pubis. The midwife told me the patient had been in that
condition several hours, but that she was afraid of breaking the membranes
too soon, because she suspected that the woman was a little disported and
the Pelvis narrow: however, the friends being concerned at her being
so long in labour and a discharge of blood supervening, she had thought
it necessary to take advice. After having twice again examined during pains,
and maturely considering the case, I concluded that delivery was retarded
by the rigidity of the membranes which seemed to be thicker than usual;
for, as the child’s head swam up from the touch and returned, it was
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