AXIS-TRACTION FORCEPS.

Again on Axis-Traction Forceps

Since these Tarnier forceps were discussed among us they have been discussed in many associations, and by many writers, and the voices are still so discordant that it seems as if a final judgment as to their value were still far off. I am anxious to bring them up again in the Society, that we may have an opportunity of considering some of the objections that have been advanced to their use, and...

The Axis-Traction Forceps: Their Mechanical Principles, Construction, and Scope

It is about thirteen years since Tarnier described the forceps with which his name is now universally associated, and there can be 110 doubt that the instrument then described marked the beginning of a new era in operative obstetrics. The difficulty which he attempted to overcome was one which had been recognised for long, and solutions, some partly successful, others entire failures, had been ...

Forceps with Adjustable Axis-Traction, and Forceps for Occipito-Posterior Positions of the Vertex

1. Inefficiency of the powers. 2. Abnormality of the passages?a, Hard ; b, soft. 3. Malpresentation or malposition of the passenger. 4. Emergencies arising in mother or child demanding speedy delivery. Indications coming under any of these divisions, with the exceptions of the abnormalities of the hard passages, may arise witli a normal condition of the bony pelvis. From the point of view of th...

On the Value of Manipulative Action Combined with Axis Traction in the Use of the Forceps

A Note on the Use of the Axis-Traction Forceps in the High and Low Operation

was obliged to resort to version, seeing that in these cases I could get no skilled assistance, being, when in Forfarshire, often from fifteen to twenty miles from home. This latter operation, of course, had to be as a rule performed under not very favourable circumstances, and the results, in my hands at least, were not very encouraging as regards the fcetus. Of twelve cases of version in my f...