Observations and facts from rural medical practice. 1. To the question of the treatment of childbirth with a narrow pelvis (3 cases)

Protracted the 1st birth with the head end. The bladder is very distended with urine, which could not be released, since the squeezed urethra did not pass the catheter. True conjugate 81/2 s. (the author does not mention how the true conjugate was determined neither in this nor in the following cases, ref.). The child is dead. A dead macerated boy with pronounced traces of forceps on his head was removed by very energetic traction. "Postpartum course with mild fever and pain in the lower abdomen, but the postpartum woman recovered after 3 weeks."