The principles and practice of midwifery : with some of the diseases of women.

  • Milne, Alexander
Date:
1871
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    the acetabiila may be driven in, and the sacral promon- tory in the dii’ection of the jiobis. 31. Malacosteon, wliich also consists of a softening of the bones, is a disease of the adnlt. An important consideration in connection with this disorder is this, that it seldom occurs but in women who have borne children. In this way it may happen that a female who has given birth to several living children shall have to be delivered by craniotomy, or even by the more terrible and fatal ojieration of abdominal section. In malacosteon the statui-e is shortened, and there may be various spinal distortions. Here it may be observed that distortion of the spine docs not necessarily lead to pelvic deformity; the two are frequently but not invariably associated. As might be expected, both in the case of Rachitis and hlalacosteon, the site and nature of the deformity depends on the strength of the pressure to AvRich the pehnc bones are subjected, and the dii’ection in which that force is apjdied. CHAPTER II. OF THE GENERATIA^E ORGANS OF THE FEMALE. 32. The female organs of generation are commonly divided into external and internal. The former con- sist of the mons veneris, the labia majora and minora, clitoris, hymen, and wagiiia; and the latter of the uterus, the ovaries, and the fallojiian tubes. We begin Avith the external. Mons Veneris.—The mons veneris is a triangular cushiony j)romincnco placed in front of the symjihysis ])ubis, and at jndiei-ty coA'ered Avith hair. In females much besot Avith adij)ose tissue, it is A’cry l)ulky and