To the technique of embryotomy

Abstract

It is probable that even at present embryotomy is a frequent operation in the work of a country doctor. During 30 years of my service as a zemstvo doctor in the Mokrovsky district (formerly Gizdrinsky, now Bezhetsky district) I had to perform it in the transverse position (always on a dead fetus) 55 times (in other cases and when it would be possible, but dangerous, to make a difficult turn. I had only two deaths after it. Ascribing such success, besides the good, healthy constitution of the women in labor, to the method of operation, I offer this method to the readers.