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 first thousand cases, I had six still-births, exactly 50 per cent.; while of my long forceps cases, which ended as such, there were 6 per cent, of foetal deaths. I am of opinion now that, judging *