Outlines of the theory and practice of midwifery / by Alexander Hamilton, M.D. F.R.S. Edin. professor of midwifery in the University, and member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.

  • Hamilton, Alexander, 1739-1802.
Date:
1784
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Credit: Outlines of the theory and practice of midwifery / by Alexander Hamilton, M.D. F.R.S. Edin. professor of midwifery in the University, and member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are rare. If the pelvis fliould not mea- fure above two inches and a half from pubes CO facrum, and not above three la- terally, it would be impoffible to fave the child at full growth, in any other manner than by enlarging the capacity of the pelvis by an incilion of the fymphylis pubis. It is often extremely difficult to difco- ver a narrow pelvisj efpecially if the nar- rownefs be confined to the brim. We may fufpe<5t the diftortion, from the make and fhape of the woman. The direction in which the fpine is difiorted frequently determines it. But the pel- vis is not always affedted by a morbid curvature of the fpine: if that extend^ however, to the lumbar vertebrae, the pelvis very feldom efcapes ; though the moft certain and infallible diagnoftic is the diftortion of the inferior extremities along with a twifted fpine. Women who are well proportioned in the lower ex- tremitieSj have generally good pelvifesi When thefe are ill proportioned or crook- ed, efpecially the thigh bones, along with other