Volume 1
An introduction to the practice of midwifery / [Thomas Denman].
- Thomas Denman
- Date:
- 1805
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An introduction to the practice of midwifery / [Thomas Denman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the f])lnc, yet the pelvis has preferved Its proper form and dimenfions; and fome women, who were in other refpedls ftraight and well pro- portioned, have had a dlftorted pelvis. If the inferior extremities are crooked, or if any part of the body were diftorted at a very early period of life, and remained in that flate, it is faid that we may be a^fured the pelvis par- takes of the difeafe, and is involved in its con- lequenccs. But, w'hen the fpine becomes dis- torted at a ii^bre advanced period, as at twelve or fourteen years of age, it is not to be eftcemed a prefuniptivc fign of a dlilortion of \X\q,pelvis, being generally occafioned by a local difcalc of the I'pinc. Thcfc obfervations arc, I believe, commonly well-founded; but, as there are many exceptions, we diould not be juftified in giving an opinion of a cafe of this kind, unlcfs W'e were permitted to make an examination vaginam. Nor fhould we by this examination,, or by any external menluration, be able to de- termine with precifion the exigence of every fmall'diftortion, but fuch only as was confider- able in its degree. If vve fliould not be able to feel any projection of the Jacrum, or veriehra, wx fiiould have a right to conclude, that there was no confiderable .deformity of pelvis;- but, if we could feel the Jacrum, or veriehra:, wc muft judge by the readiuefs with w^hich. they can be felt, of the degree of diftortion, and of the impediments which may be there- i^y](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22039697_0001_0114.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
