An essay on laborious parturition, in which the division of the symphysis pubis is particularly considered / by William Osborn, M. D. Physician and man-midwife to the General Lying-in Hospital in Store Street, and lecturer on midwifery in London.

  • Osborn, William, 1736-1808.
Date:
1783
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Credit: An essay on laborious parturition, in which the division of the symphysis pubis is particularly considered / by William Osborn, M. D. Physician and man-midwife to the General Lying-in Hospital in Store Street, and lecturer on midwifery in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pelvis, is incompatible with the fafety of both mother and child. In this cafe,- the life of the child muft of neceflity be facrificed to the prefervation of the mother, or the mother herfelf, for the certain fafety of her child, muft be doomed to inevitable deftruc- tion by the Ccejarian operation; or for a precarious chance, and the flendereft probability of fafe- ty to her child, fhe muft at leaft be expofed to the pain and danger of the Divifion of the Jymphyjis pu- bis. This laft operation was lately invented, and performed at Paris by Monf. Sigaiilt, with an inten- tion to fuperfede the necelTity of the Casfarian fedion, and infal- libly to preferve both parent and child 5 and as it has much en- gaged