 When the knife has penetrated the symphysis, cut downwards until you have reached and divided the ligamentum arcuatum. Then turn the blade so that the cutting edge is upwards, and divide the rest of the symphysis. There may be a little difficulty in dividing...  Operative Midwifery - Page 386by John Martin Munro Kerr - 1908 - 705 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Ernest Herman - 1907 - 514 pages
...will easily penetrate the symphysis. If you have hot hit the middle line, and the point of the knife impinges on bone, the difference of resistance will...at the top and lower part of the symphysis, because there is a little tendency for the knife to push these fibres before it, instead of cutting quickly... | |
 | George Ernest Herman - Labor (Obstetrics) - 1909 - 478 pages
...will easily penetrate the symphysis. If you have not hit the middle line, and the point of the knife impinges on bone, the difference of resistance will...at the top and lower part of the symphysis, because there is a little tendency for the knife to push these fibres before it, instead of cutting quickly... | |
 | Arthur Latham - 1914 - 1058 pages
...on hone, the difference of resistance will inform you of the fact ; if so, shift the point a little, the right or left, and it will come upon the symphysis....cut downwards until you have reached and divided the ligameiitmn arcuatum. Then turn the blade so that the cutting edge is upwards, and divide the rest... | |
 | 1915 - 1060 pages
...on bone, the difference of resistance will inform you of the fact ; if so, shift the point a little, the right or left, and it will come upon the symphysis....until you have reached and divided the ligamentum areuatum. Then turn the blade so that the cutting edge is upwards, and divide the rest of the symphysis.... | |
 | 1917 - 1060 pages
...on bone, the difference of resistance will inform you of the fact ; if so, shift the point a little, the right or left, and it will come upon the symphysis....until you have reached and divided the ligamentum areuatum. Then turn the blade so that the cutting edge is upwards, and divide the rest of the symphysis.... | |
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