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Smellie contributed more to the fundamentals of obstetrics than virtually any individual. He described more accurately than any previous writer the mechanism of parturition, stressing the importance of exact measurement of the pelvis. He was the first ro lay down safe rules regarding athe use of forcepsm, and personlly introduced the steel-lock, the curvved, and the double forceps. He invented the "Smellie manoeuvre" to deliver breech cases (Morton's Medical Bibliography, Fifth Edition, Edited by Jeremy M. Norman).

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