Lectures on the principles and practice of midwifery / by James Blundell ; Edited by Charles Severn.

  • James Blundell
Date:
1839
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Credit: Lectures on the principles and practice of midwifery / by James Blundell ; Edited by Charles Severn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the ischium, a pointed process of the bone projecting backwards and a little downwards ; the hollow of the ilium ; the articulatory surfaces, one in front, uniting the os innominatum on the one side with its fellow on the other ; and the other posteriorly, se- verally connecting the bones with the sacrum. So much then with respect to the bones of the pelvis, the sacrum, the os coccygis, and the two ossa innominata. VERNACULAR TERMS. It may not be impertinent to give you the names by which they are known in our maternal tongue, because female practitioners, with whom you must occasionally meet, use them in preference to classical terms, ill suited to Teutonic organs ; and, therefore, without the knowledge of the vernacular expressions you might be at a loss to understand what is meant. The bone on which we sit, the ischium, they very properly call the sitting bone; the os pubis, the shear bone; the os ilium, the haunch bone; the sacrum, the rump bone; and the little bone, the os coccygis, they call the huckle, perhaps an euphonious and more graceful substitute for knuckle. LIGAMENTS. When the anatomist examines the pelvis, he finds there a vari- ety of ligaments, some of them of no small importance in surgery, a delicious study for the amateurs in hernia. In an obstetric view, however, the ligaments which alone are of importance are the obturatores, and more especially the sacro-ischiatic ligaments, for with the ligaments of Poupart and Gimbernat the accoucheur has little to do ; and first of the obturatores. In the ossa inno- minata we have, in either bone, a large aperture, through which two or three fingers may be passed—the obturator foramen already demonstrated; with a sheet of ligament (the obturator ligament) in the recent pelvis this aperture is closed; and al- though examining this ligament we often find it in several aper- tures made by the dermastes, or the more destructive fingers of noviciates, naturally there is one aperture only, placed above towards the back part, and transmitting the obturator artery, vein,
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