About tongs

Mm. Yy! In the quality of an old practitioner-obstetrician, I will allow myself to occupy your attention at this moment with a purely obstetric question. In obstetrics, as well as in medicine in general, each approach, each theory is modified over time; from excessive enthusiasm they go to oblivion and vice versa. Such a fate befell one of the most common and useful obstetric instruments - forceps. There was a time when they were carried away. Oziander the Elder applied them almost at every birth; then his son and Stein limited their use; Outside, the obstetric forceps were indicated in the appropriate place, they were used more or less by one or another obstetrician.