Dr. Conquest's outlines of midwifery : intended as a text-book for students, and a book of reference for junior practitioners.

  • Conquest, Dr.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Dr. Conquest's outlines of midwifery : intended as a text-book for students, and a book of reference for junior practitioners. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OUTLINES OF MIDWIFERY. In an elementary work on the Principles and Prac- tice of Midwifery, the obstetric Anatomy op the Pelvis seems to claim primary attention; because the laws and associations which govern the respective , organs of the body cannot be accurately known with- out an acquaintance with their position and structure; and diseased action can never be understood without a previous knowledge of healthy function. The Pelvis is that assemblage of bones which is united to the trunk by the last lumbar vertebra, and to^ the inferior extremities by the articulation of the thigh bones with the ossa innominata. The adult pelvis consists of fovr bones, viz., the two Ossa Innominata, the Os Sacrum, and the Os Coccygis. The Ossa Innominata* form the sides and front * These bones have the name of Ossa Innominata, or nameless bones, because they are tliought not to resemble any known object. B H