The Principles of Midwifery

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE PRINCIPLES MIDWIFERY. BOOK I. OF THE STRUCTURE, FUNCTIONS, AND DISEASES OF THE PELVIS AND UTERINE SYSTEM, IN THE UNIMPREGNATED STATE, AND DURING GESTATION. CHAP. I. Of the Bones of the Pelvis. SECTION FIRST. The practical precepts and rules in Midwifery, are easily understood, and readily acquired....
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE PRINCIPLES MIDWIFERY. BOOK I. OF THE STRUCTURE, FUNCTIONS, AND DISEASES OF THE PELVIS AND UTERINE SYSTEM, IN THE UNIMPREGNATED STATE, AND DURING GESTATION. CHAP. I. Of the Bones of the Pelvis. SECTION FIRST. The practical precepts and rules in Midwifery, are easily understood, and readily acquired. They are drawn, from the structure and actions, of the parts concerned in parturition; and whoever is well acquainted with this structure, and these actions, may, from such knowledge, deduce all the valuable and important directions, which constitute the Practice of Midwifery. One of the first, and not the least important, of the parts concerned in parturition, is the pelvis, which must be examined, not only on account of its connexion with the uterus and vagina, but also of its own immediate relation to the delivery of the child, and the obstacles which, in many instances, it opposes to its passage. The pelvis consists, in the full grown female, of three large bones, two of which are very irregular, having no near resemblance to any other object; on which account they have been called the ossa innominata. These form the sides and front ofthe basin or pelvis. The back part consists of a triangular bone, called the os sacrum, to the inferior extremity, or apex, of which, is attached, by a moveable articulation, a small bone, which, from its supposed resemblance to the beak of a cuckoo, has been named the os coccygis. The os innominatum, in infancy, consists of three separate pieces: the upper portion is called the ilium, or haunch bone; the under, the ischium, or seat bone; and the anterior, which is the smallest of the three, is called the os pubis, or share bone. These all join together in the acetabulum, or socket, formed for receiving the os ...