The application of the principles and practice of homoeopathy to obstetrics and the disorders peculiar to women and young children / by Henry N. Guernsey.

  • Guernsey, Henry N. (Henry Newell), 1817-1885.
Date:
1874
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Credit: The application of the principles and practice of homoeopathy to obstetrics and the disorders peculiar to women and young children / by Henry N. Guernsey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A Treatise on Obstetrics. CHAPTEE I. THE BONES OF THE PELVIS. OBSTETRICS, as a science and as an art, has relation to the phe- nomena of pregnancy and parturition considered as physiological processes. Its study naturally includes a consideration of the develop- ment necessary to the occurrence of pregnancy, the period of preg- nancy itself, and the conditions which, succeeding parturition, may be regarded as its consequences. At the same time, however, all inequalities in form and function, and all difficulties and disorders attendant upon, connected with, or following after these processes, with their proper treatment, must be thoroughly understood, in order that the student may become an accomplished and successful ac- coucheur and physician. The anatomy and physiology of the pelvis, therefore, and of the parts of which it is composed, of the organs which it contains, and of those which are functionally associated with them, demand the first attention. And it is to be remembered that no mere description of these several organs and regions can alone be sufficient to impart a knowledge of them adequate to the purposes of the obstetrician, for the bones of the pelvis and their relations to each other, the pelvis as a whole and its relations to the mechanism of pregnancy and parturition, and the soft parts .in situ, must be care- fully and scrutinizingly studied, on the skeleton and on the cadaver. In describing the anatomy of these parts and organs, a well-formed adult—having passed through the successive stages of progressive development, from the embryonic formation to that of maturity—is taken as a standard. The Pelvis is composed of four bones—viz., the sacrum, the coccyx, and the ossa innominata. The sacrum and coccyx form the posterior part of the pelvis, and are placed on the median line, while