. A treatise on obstetrics for students and practitioners . Shape of abdominal tumor in primigravida. In estimating the size of the mothers pelvis a distinction is to bemade between a critical examination of the pelvis from the standpoint Fig. Shape of abdominal tumor in multigravida. of the anatomist and such an examination of the pelvis as is possibleto the clinician in the practice of obstetrics. The statements are often THE DIAGNOSIS OF ADVANCED PREGNANCY. 43 made that American women rarely have contracted pelves, and thatthe practice of pelvimetry is not necessary except among women
. A treatise on obstetrics for students and practitioners . Shape of abdominal tumor in primigravida. In estimating the size of the mothers pelvis a distinction is to bemade between a critical examination of the pelvis from the standpoint Fig. Shape of abdominal tumor in multigravida. of the anatomist and such an examination of the pelvis as is possibleto the clinician in the practice of obstetrics. The statements are often THE DIAGNOSIS OF ADVANCED PREGNANCY. 43 made that American women rarely have contracted pelves, and thatthe practice of pelvimetry is not necessary except among women evi-dently the subject of disease of the skeleton, many of whom are of for-eign birth. These statements are unfortunately incorrect; for while itis true that but few women of American birth, born amid the betterhygienic conditions which have so far prevailed in America, havehighly contracted pelves, it is also true that many American women ofall classes of society have pelves differing from the normal size, andthat these differences are sufficiently great to influence the course andthe results of labor. It is comparatively easy to appreciate a highgrade of pelvic contraction, but it is equally important for the interestsof the patient that
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