A woman's pelvis after a succesful pubiotomy - a surgical incision of the symphysis pubis generally to widen the birth canal for vaginal delivery. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.

Dresden : Zahn & Jaensch, 1908 ([Dresden] : Römmler & Jonas)

1 print : collotype ; image 32.3 x 22.8 cm

Leopold und Leisewitz, Geburtshilflicher Röntgen-Atlas. Römmler & Jonas, Dresden. Lettering attached to the print is on a separate sheet and reads: "Hebosteotomy. Radiograph taken 21 months after operation. ... Strong generally contracted rhachitic pelvis ... Former confinements: 1st version with perforation of head afterwards, 2nd and 3rd very difficult versions with living children. Now: first proposition of head, head moveable above entrance to pelvis, ring of contraction in region of navel. ... Child ... removed with forceps after hebosteotomy. (On post-examination slight extension of pelvis apparent.) Fissure on left os pubis no longer visible; on the left descending pubis only a very minuter protrusion of the bone visible. Ossification complete."

Wellcome Collection 17134i