A treatise on the science and practice of midwifery . Anterior and PosteriorFontanelles. Bi-parietal Diameter. Sagittal and LambdoidalSutures, with Posterior Fontanelle. much smaller than the anterior fontanelle, forming merely a depressioninto which the tip of the finger can be placed, while the latter is a hollowas big as a shilling, or even larger. As it is the posterior fontanellewhich is generally lowest, and the one most commonly felt during labor,it Is important for the student to familiarize himself with it, and heshould lose no opportunity of studying the sensations imparted to
A treatise on the science and practice of midwifery . Anterior and PosteriorFontanelles. Bi-parietal Diameter. Sagittal and LambdoidalSutures, with Posterior Fontanelle. much smaller than the anterior fontanelle, forming merely a depressioninto which the tip of the finger can be placed, while the latter is a hollowas big as a shilling, or even larger. As it is the posterior fontanellewhich is generally lowest, and the one most commonly felt during labor,it Is important for the student to familiarize himself with it, and heshould lose no opportunity of studying the sensations imparted to thefinger by the sutures and fontanelles in the head of the child afterbirth. The Diameters of the Fetal 8hiE.—For the purpose of understandingthe mechanism of labor we must study the measurements of the foetalhead in relation to the cavity through which it has to pass. They arctaken from corresponding points opposite to each other, and are knownas the diameters of the skull (Fig. JO). Those of mosl importance are :1st. The ocmptto-mental, from tne occi
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