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Table 10. Twins

Table 10 gives a front view of Twins in Utero in the beginning of labour ; the anterior parts being removed.

Legend

• A The uterus as stretched with the membranes and waters.
• B The superior parts of the ossa ilium.
• C The acetctbula.
• D The ossa ischium.
• E The coccyx.
• F The lower part of the rectum.
• G The vagina.
• H The os internum stretched open about a finger's breadth with the membranes and waters in time of labour-pains.
• I The inferior part of the uterus stretched with the waters which are below the head of the child that presents.
• K The two placentas adhering to the posterior part of the uterus, the two foetuses lying before them ; one with its head in a proper position, at the inferior part of the uterus; and the other situated preternaturally, with the head to the fundus: The bodies of each are here entangled in their proper funis, which frequently happens in the natural as well as preternatural positions.
• L The membranes belonging to each placenta.

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William Smellie (1697-1763) - A sett of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment, of the practice of midwifery (1754). He also helped develop the delivery forceps which by the late eighteenth century were a well-known standard obstetrical instrument.

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