Contributions to the mechanism of natural and morbid parturition : including that of the placenta praevia. With an appendix / by J. Matthews Duncan.

  • James Matthews Duncan
Date:
1875
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Credit: Contributions to the mechanism of natural and morbid parturition : including that of the placenta praevia. With an appendix / by J. Matthews Duncan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    did for anatomy, and I know no individual name that deserves the place of honour in connection with them. We have to come far on in the decades, past the time of Denman, to find them fully stated and their relations and importance understood. Even in some text-books of our own day there is great deficiency and evident want of intelligence in the authors—want of such just appreciation as is to be observed in the writings of Smellie, or such fulness and completeness as are found in the manual of Paul Dulmis, published in 18-49.1 The study of anatomy, and especially of measure- ments, necessarily leads to observation of shapes and directions. So, from the first, there have been at- tempts made to determine shapes, planes, and axes. Obstetricians are familiar with the learned writings on these points by Eoederer, Stein, Bakker, Carus, Naegele, and others. But the writings of these authors could scarcely be expected to be complete enough for us. They could not, in their day, foresee the direction in which midwifery, as a science, would advance, and could not meet wants which were not felt The subject of axes, especially, is found to be so connected with that of the exercise of force, that, 1 The succession, in order of time, of cranial measurements to pelvic is well illustrated by the circumstance that, while tor a Long time pelvimeters have been invented, and especially internal pelvi- interna] craniometers have as jei nevi r, bo far as I know, d, as they certainly ought t<> he.