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Model of incomplete breech presentation
    • Setting:
      Room X
    • Author:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Florence
    • Date:
      1770-1775
    • Materials:
      terracotta
    • Dimensions:
      180x290x340 mm
    • Inventory:
      Dep. OSMN, Firenze
    • Model of incomplete breech presentation (Dep. OSMN, Firenze)

This terracotta model, commissioned by Giuseppe Galletti, shows a "buttocks-first" breech presentation, with the fetus in right sacro-iliac position. The lower right limb is extended upward; the foot of the lower left limb, flexed at the knee joint, is facing downward. The umbilical cord winds around the neck and the placenta is posterior, in lateral right position.