Excerpt from The American Practitioner and News, 1887: A Bi-Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery; Volumes III and IV At the semi-annual meeting of the Hart ford County (conn.) Medical Association, in October past, one of the assigned subjects for discussion was breech presentation. The points brought out induced the writing of this paper. The interesting part of the matter, as it was treated of at the time, related to the manage ment of the cases in such way as would best aid to secure the birth of the child alive. The mechanism of the delivery of the head in a breech case is gone into quite explicitly in the text-books, and it is not in the purpose of this paper to attempt more fully to illustrate this part of the subject. Flint is of more impor tance to talk about is how to efficiently assist nature in getting the head outside the vagina before pressure on the cord, arresting the cir culation, has caused the death of the half-born babe. As to the management of this matter there is much laid down in the standard nu thors intended to help out the inexperienced attendant, which the scope of this paper will not permit going into, and is not necessary to repeat in detail in order to come at some special points in relation to the subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.