The Management of Labour in Cases of Contracted Pelvis. Discussion at a Joint Meeting of the Glasgow and Edinburgh Obstetrical Societies Opened by Hector R. MacLennan and Edwin M. Robertson

An Analysis of 306 Cases of Contracted Pelvis

On the Superior Value of Artificial Premature Labour and Turning, over the High Forceps Operation and Craniotomy, in Cases of Contracted Pelvis; with Cases

Induction of Labour *Read at a Meeting of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, 10th February 1937.

subject. To quote Johnstone's text-book, " broadly speaking, the operation is indicated by any condition of the mother or the foetus which renders the continuation of pregnancy . . . dangerous to one or other or both." This holds good, but the interpretation varies. Williams, for example, gives it as his opinion that women with contracted pelvis should be allowed to go on to labour without inte...

Some Observations on the Management of the Third Stage of Labour *Read at a meeting of the Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh on 12th February 1936.

I TRUST that a discussion on the management of the third stage of labour will not prove to be devoid of interest, for the matter is one of importance to both the parturient woman and her attendant, whether the latter be midwife or doctor. That controversy has ranged round the proper conduct of the third stage is common knowledge to all who have studied the older obstetrical works, but it may no...

Breech Delivery, with Special Reference to the Primigravida *Read at a meeting of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society on 8th March 1939.

In approximately 2*5 per cent, of labours at term the child is found to be presenting by the breech, and in some 40 per cent, of these the patient is a primigravida. So far as the mother is concerned, there is only a slightly increased risk to life as compared with vertex presentations, such an increase resulting from a more prolonged labour and the possible necessity for operative interference...