A manual of midwifery for students and practitioners / by Henry Jellett, with the assistance in special subjects of W. R. Dawson [and others].

Date:
1905
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Credit: A manual of midwifery for students and practitioners / by Henry Jellett, with the assistance in special subjects of W. R. Dawson [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    concave from above downwards, and slightly so from side to side, and presents faint transverse ridges or depressions which mark the original line of separation between the individual sacral vertebrae. Fig. i.—Sacrum and Coccyx. Its width at the base is about 4J inches, and at the apex about 2 inches. The posterior surface is irregular, presenting a median ridge formed by the spines of the sacral vertebrae, and is bounded Fig. 2.—A Longitudinal Mesial Section through the Sacrum and Coccyx. on either side by a vertical ridge composed of the sacral trans- verse processes. It is of less extent than the anterior surface, and is convex both in the vertical and transverse directions. It gives attachment to some of the muscles of the back. The lateral
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