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Model of shoulder presentation
    • Setting:
      Room X
    • Author:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Florence
    • Date:
      1770-1775
    • Materials:
      terracotta
    • Dimensions:
      230x460x450 mm
    • Inventory:
      Dep. OSMN, Firenze
    • Model of shoulder presentation (Dep. OSMN, Firenze)

This terracotta model, commissioned by Giuseppe Galletti, shows a labor in which the fetus is in shoulder presentation or transverse posterior presentation (duplicato corpore delivery). The spinal column is everted and the head rests on the lower part of the trunk (podex). The abdomen of the fetus is wedged in the pelvis and the prolapsed umbilical cord is everted from the vulva.