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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    by the superior margin of the sacrum, the linea ilio-pectinea, and the superior mar- gins of the ossa pubis ; its form is elliptic, oval, or heart-like. It has three diameters. {a) The antero posterior, sacro-puhic or conjugate diameter, extends from the middle of the promontory of the sacrum, to the central and posterior part of the symphysis pubis. It is the shortest of all, and measures in the skeleton about four