A set of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment of the practice of midwifery : with a view to illustrate a treatise on that subject, and collection of cases / by William Smellie, M.D.

  • Smellie, William, 1697-1763.
Date:
1787
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Credit: A set of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment of the practice of midwifery : with a view to illustrate a treatise on that subject, and collection of cases / by William Smellie, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    liderably above the pubis. From the aldo- men being now more ftretched, the woman is more fenfible of her growing bigger ; and the uttrus alfo, from the counter-preffure of the contents and parietes of the abdomen^ is kept down, and the os uteri prevented from rifmg before the finger as formerly. In lean women, the ftretching of the uterus can fometimes be perceived in the vagina at this period as well as above the pubes: but no- thing certain can be difcovered from the re- fiftance or feel of the mouth of the uuomb or lips^ which are commonly the fame in the firft months of pregnancy as before it. The fize or bulk of the fxtus is finally here to be obferved, with the placetita adhe- ring to the pofterior part of the uterus. Vide the references to Vol. I. and 11. in the former Table.