Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on Obstetrics, Vol. 4 of 4: Obstetric Operations, the Pathology of the Puerperium; With One Colored Plate and 191 Fine Wood Engravings Hippocrates advised succussion; the Arabian physicians and Rhazes advised transferring all presentations into that of the vertex, the latter even going so far as to counsel amputation of the presenting part in order to gain space for the vertex. 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.