On more frequent use of forceps in obstetric practice

Abstract

In England and America, childbirth ends with forceps much more often than on the continent of Europe. The principles of non-intervention, preached by some prominent German clinicians (Winckel et al.) Are ignored by Anglo-American doctors and, apparently, they are more right than the Germans. Winckel, protesting against the frequent use of forceps, believes that by resorting to them for the sake of weakness of attempts, we condemn the mother to more or less severe bleeding in the 3rd period of labor, due to the same uterine atony, or that we risk, both by forceps and necessary in the 3rd period of extraction of the placenta — to introduce infection into the birth canal of a woman in labor.

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