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| My reason for withdrawing the fillet,
was because I durst not venture to exert to much force as was requisite
for delivery, left the part of which I laid hold, should have been galled
to the bone; for I knew one instance in which the fillet had been used,
and actually scalped the childe, and another in which the child’s under
jaw had been cut to the bone by the force of the pulling. |
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| CASE III. |
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In the course of the same year, being called to a woman, who according
to the midwife's report had been three days in labour, I found the child's
head at the lower part of the Pelvis, and a large tumor on the
Vertex, protruded without the Os Externum. She had been
in a slow kind of labour all Saturday and part of Sunday
night; by these the head had been pushed down down, but did not advance
farther than the situation in which I found it, on Monday night.
The patient was much exhausted by fatigue and the length of the labour,
and
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