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Identifier: obstetricsscienc01meig (find matches)
Title: Obstetrics: the science and the art
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Meigs, Charles D. (Charles Delucena), 1792-1869
Subjects: Obstetrics Obstetrics
Publisher: Philadelphia. Lea
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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ologie der Beckenorgane. 76. It appears to me that this is the most instructive illustrationthat I have ever met with in any of the numerous books on Mid-wifery, and is to be entirely confided in for its correctness. Thesubject was a young girl 21 years of age, who committed suicidewhile menstruating. The specimen was prepared in such a way asto enable Dr. Kolrausch to see it Avhile lying in a bath of alcoholcovered with a glass plate. Looking downward through a diopterfirmly fixed 24 inches above the glass plate. Dr. Kolrausch, using apen dipped in printers ink softened with oil of turpentine, drewevery one of the lines with the utmost exactness on the interveningplate of glass—viewing them through the dio)3ter; so that they couldnot, perhaps, be morfe correctly taken by a photograph. Thecopper-plate was copied from the drawing. THE PELVIS. 67 77. To the right is the buttock covering the bisected sacrum, infront of which is the rectum, which has been laid open by the inci- Fig. 18.
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sion. On the left, behind the os pubis, is the bladder of urine withits urethra. 78. Between the bladder and the rectum is the tube of the vaginasurmounted by the uterus, whose summit or fundus does not risequite so high as the plane of the superior strait. The womb restsupon the upper end of the vagina, which incloses its cervical or neckportion and keeps it up in its place by means of its connection withthe bladder in front and the rectum behind, and more than all bymeans of two utero-sacral ligaments which tie the upper ends of thevagina and the womb to a certain place about an inch and a half infront of the apex of the sacrum. I here repeat that as long as theutero-sacral ligaments continue in a healthy state, preserving bytheir tone a due length, the womb cannot fall downwards or pro- 68 THE PELVIS. lapse, because tlie cervix, being inclosed within the upper end ofthe canal of the vagina, it cannot move down unless that upper endof the vagina move down also, which, as above said,

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