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Title: A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Cooke, Joseph Brown. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Obstetrics
Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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eye on thebehavior of their bodily functions, and unless the nurse hasmade careful and judicious preparations for conducting theirlabors in a thoroughly aseptic manner, complications may ariseat the last moment which may result in permanent invalidism,if not in the death, of the mother or child. Obstetric nursing presents many unattractive features, forafter labor there are two patients instead of one to be cared for,but it offers so many and so great opportunities for the advance-ment of preventive medicine that the writer cannot but lookwith considerable disfavor upon that large and constantly in-creasing class of hospital nurses who regard maternity cases asentirely beneath their dignity and who leave these unfortunatepatients in the care of unskilled attendants, only to nurse themafterwards when they reach the operating-table of the gynae-cologist. II The Pelvis The pelvis (Fig. i) is that portion of the skeleton whichlies between the spinal column and the lower extremities. It is
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Fig. i.—The normal female pelvis. (Garrigues.) A, sacrum; B, coccyx; C, crest ofthe ilium; D, acetabulum; E, spine of the ischium; jF, symphysis pubis; G, spine of thepubis ; H, obturator foramen ; I, tuberosity of the ischium ; y, J, J, linea terminalis. composed of four bones,—the sacrum and coccyx behind, andthe innominate bones (ossa innominata) at the sides and in front.Each innominate bone (os innominatum) is divided by anato-mists into three parts,—the ilium, the ischium, and the pubis. The ilium, which is the largest portion of the bone, is broad,thin, concave on its inner aspect, and lies above the narrow con-stricted portion of the pelvis. Like its fellow of the oppositeside, it is joined to the sacrum behind, and its upper flaring22 The pelviS. 23 border forms trie prominence of the hip, or crest of the Marti,commonly spoken of as the hip bone. The pubis joins directly in front, in the median line, wifriits opposite fellow, and closes, anteriorly, the cavity of the pe

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