Volume 1

The principles and practice of midwifery ... / Completed and corrected by James Sims.

  • Foster, Edward
Date:
1781
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Credit: The principles and practice of midwifery ... / Completed and corrected by James Sims. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (1X.) And the-offa pubis are articulated together before, by a broad, flrong, hi- gamentous cartilage, which cannot, in a found ftate, allow the leaft motion, and is called the fymphylis of the pubis. | _ XII. Thefe bones, thus formed and united, conftitute the pelvis, whofe cavity is an irregular cylinder, wideit in the mid- die. It has two great apertures, one above, formed by the brim; and one below, formed by the loweft edges of the facrum, coccyx, ifchia, and pubes. The upper aperture, which gives paflage to the dif- tending and contracting uterus, and blad- der, and their contents, and to the rectum, and blood veflels, &cc. is of an elliptic form, with its greateft dimenfion, which meafures from four and an half to five and an half inches, from fide to fide, or from one ilium to the other; and its {malleft dimenfion, meafuring from three inches and an half to four and an half, from the jetting.in of the facrum, to the fymphyfis of the pubis. The lower aper- ture, which, in the natural flate, is mofily covered, or filled up, with ligaments, B 4 mul-
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