On the Surgical Aspects of Impacted Labour

the operation was begun that almost every case in British practice entailed the mother's death, and as the child had been previously destroyed, the operation got to be looked upon as almost necessarily fatal both to mother and child. I saw the late Dr. Dyce of Aberdeen perform the operation on a dwarf whose pelvis measured full three inches in the conjugate diameter. The forceps had been tried repeatedly, and three long hours had been spent in attempting to deliver with the crotchet. The woman's death was ensured, or nearly so, before the abdominal section was resolved on. Now-a-days she would be delivered readily enough, but in cases of greater disproportion there comes somewhere a limit where embryotomy is impossible, and where it should not be attempted, as the