Volume 1

A treatise on the science and practice of midwifery / by W.S. Playfair.

  • William Smoult Playfair
Date:
1878
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Credit: A treatise on the science and practice of midwifery / by W.S. Playfair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    University of Leeds. THE SCIENCE AND PEACTICE OF MIDWIFEEY. PAET 1. JXATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE ORGANS CONCERNED IN PARTURITION. (CHAPTER I. ANATOMY OF THE PELVIS. The jjelvis is the bony basin situated between the trunk The pelvis, and the lower extremities. To the obstetrician its study is of paramount importance, for it not only contains, in the un- Its import- impregnated state, all the organs connected with the function of reproduction, but through its cavity the foetus has to pass in the process of parturition. An accurate knowledge, therefore, of its anatomical formation njay be said to be the very alphabet of obstetrics, without which no one can practise midwifery, either with satisfaction to himself or safety to his patient. In a treatise on obstetrics, however, any detailed account of the purely descriptive anatomy of the pelvis would be out of place. A knowledge of that must be taken for granted, and it is only necessary to refer to those points which have a more or less direct bearing on the study of its obstetrical relations. The pelvis is formed of four bones. On either side are