A Practical Treatise on Midwifery Author:Robert Collins Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 33 ON PRESENTATIONS OF THE FACE, AND WITH FACE TO PUBES. In thirty-three cases the face of the child presented ; four of the 33 were still-born ; with the ... more »first, the labour lasted thirty-six hours ; the second was an acephalous foetus ; with the third the labour lasted eight hours, and with the fourth, seven hours ; all were delivered without assistance. In twelve cases the head presented with the face to the pubes ; six of the twelve children were stillborn ; with the first, the mother had been a considerable time in labour before admission; with the second, there were three convolutions of the funis on the neck; the labour lasted sixteen hours, and the forehead suffered much from compression; with the third, the mother was deformed, and the pelvis very defective ; with the fourth, the mother had been in labour before admission, this was her second pregnancy, and both deliveries were effected with the crotchet; the 5th was the above-mentioned woman, No. 3, with the defective pelvis, who returned with a similar presentation; with the 6th, the funis and hand descended with the head. The 3d, 4th, 5th, and 6th, were delivered with the crotchet, see cases No. 20=23=28=37. By reference to these, it will be clearly seen that the position of the child did not in any instance, render artificial delivery necessary. With three of the four children thus delivered, the pelvis was greatly defective, all their previous children had been still-born ; and with the 4th, the funis and hand descended with the head, and pulsation ceased. Of the 45 children presenting as described, 35 were born alive ; twenty-six of the 45 were males; of the ten still-born, six were males. One of the 45 women died, viz. the deformed patient.—See article on haemorrhages, No. 79- In 35 of the 45, the labo...« less