A manual of practical obstetrics : arranged so as to afford a concise and accurate description of the management of preternatural labours : preceded by an account of the mechanism of natural labour / from the French of Julius Hatin, by S.D. Gross ; with an appendix containing A physiological memoir upon the brain / from the French of M. Magendie, by Joseph Gardner.

  • Hatin, Jules, -1839.
Date:
1828
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Credit: A manual of practical obstetrics : arranged so as to afford a concise and accurate description of the management of preternatural labours : preceded by an account of the mechanism of natural labour / from the French of Julius Hatin, by S.D. Gross ; with an appendix containing A physiological memoir upon the brain / from the French of M. Magendie, by Joseph Gardner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in the recent state, and is formed entirely by the parietes of the abdomen. Posterior region.—It presents in its middle the termination of the vertebral column, and laterally the marks of the sacro-iliac symphyses. Lateral regions.—They are formed by the inter- nal iliac fossae, which are occupied in the recent state, by the psoae and iliac muscles. Dimensions of the great pelvis. Width.—The width of the pelvis from one iliac crest to the other is about 10 inches; from one an- tero-superior spinous process to the other, about 9 inches, and from one antero-inferior spinous process to the other, about 8 inches. Depth.—From the middle of the iliac crest to the superior strait, about three inches and a half, and to the level of the antero-superior spinous process of the ilium, about three inches. Extent from behind forwards.—The extent of the great pelvis can not be determined in this di- rection, on account of the parietes of the abdomen, which are susceptible of more or less considerable extension. Superior strait.—This is the osseous border which separates the great from the small pelvis. Form.—It varies in its form, though most fre- quently it is elliptical. Dimensions.—The superior strait has four di- ameters, viz., an anteroposterior, which extends from the sacro-vertebral angle to the symphysis pubis; a transverse, which extends from one side of the pelvis to the other, and two oblique, which extend from the sacro-iliac symphysis of one side, to thelinea