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The principles and practice of obstetric medicine and surgery, in reference to the process of parturition / [Francis H. Ramsbotham].

  • Francis Henry Ramsbotham
Date:
1841
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Credit: The principles and practice of obstetric medicine and surgery, in reference to the process of parturition / [Francis H. Ramsbotham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    when the bone is joined to the sacrum, a very large notch: this is called the sciatic notch. But in the recent pelvis this notch is perfected into two foramina—an upper one, the larger, and a lower one, the smaller—by liga- ments, hereafter to be described, which run from the side to the back part of the pelvis; and therefore, when the ligaments are preserved, their apertures are called the sciatic foramina. (Plates 2 and 4, fig.2.) Through the larger of these pass the gluteal, sciatic, and pudic arteries ; the sciatic and pudic nerves, and the pyriform muscle. Through the smaller the pudie arteries and nerve re- enter the pelvis, and the obturator int. muscle passes out. That portion of the internal face of the ilium, which is smooth and concave, supplies a bed for the reception of the iliacus internus muscle; but the posterior part! is very rough, and marks the connexion between the ilium and the sacrum. This union forms one of the two sacro-iliac sym- physes, or posterior joints of the pelvis, there being one on
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