A manual of practical midwifery containing a description of natural and difficult labours, with their management. Intended chiefly as a book of reference for students and junior practitioners / By James Reid, M.D.

  • Reid, James.
Date:
1836
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Credit: A manual of practical midwifery containing a description of natural and difficult labours, with their management. Intended chiefly as a book of reference for students and junior practitioners / By James Reid, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I sliall therefore confine myself to those points which more immediately bear upon the subject, commencing with the DIMENSIONS OF THE ADDLT FEMALE PELVIS. This part is usually divided, by ac- coucheurs, into the large, superior, or false; and the small, inferior, or true pelvis; the linea ilio-pectinea being the line of demarcation between them. The larger, or false pelvis, is formed laterally by the expansion of the ossa ilii, and posteriorly by the lumbar vertebras; the smaller, or true pelvis, comprehends all below the ilio-pectineal line, and is of much greater importance to the obstetric practitioner than the former. The true pelvis is again subdivided into the brim or superior aperture, the cavity, and the outlet or inferior aperture. The or superior strait, is formed