Improved Midwifery Forceps

The Use and Abuse of Midwifery Forceps

A New Kind of Midwifery Forceps

united, are readily applied to them, and immediately, the operator finds he has the head already firmly fixed in the grasp of the instrument, and that all the difficulty of locking has been avoided. Another important improvement is that the blades are so much more curved, and fit the head so closely, that 110 space is left between them and the presenting part of the head. By this, the difficult...

A Simple and Improved Modification of the Midwifery Forceps *Read 10th February 1926.

I HAVE been asked to initiate a discussion on the midwifery forceps, especially in relation to the choice of instrument and its applicability to private practice under modern conditions. I am not so much concerned to-night with the indications for forceps, though I would like to say that there is a tendency at present, in my opinion, to their too frequent use in these days of hurry and haste, n...

Against the Pendulum Movement in Using the Midwifery Forceps

A Case of Stone in the Bladder Removed by Midwifery Forceps

as usually happens, and on palpating the bladder it felt a globular hard mass suggesting a tumour of the bladder as well as a stone Inside: to be sure of this I again sounded the bladder and confirmed the presence of a big hard stone. The bladder incision was now enlarged and a big stone occupying the whole of the bladder was detected. The stone could neither be caught in the lithotomy forceps ...