. A compendious system of midwifery : chiefly designed to facilitate the inquiries of those who may be pursuing this branch of study, illustrated by occasional cases . enorrhagia; where the long continuance of the disease, ratherthan the immediate excess of the quantity discharged, renderedit important it should be arrested. I have given, in such cases,three grains three times a day, in the form of a pill, and con-tinued it for some time. 1765. It may also be useful in cases of polypi, when it shall bedesirable to force these substances beyond the neck of the uterus, • See Chapter «u Uterine H


. A compendious system of midwifery : chiefly designed to facilitate the inquiries of those who may be pursuing this branch of study, illustrated by occasional cases . enorrhagia; where the long continuance of the disease, ratherthan the immediate excess of the quantity discharged, renderedit important it should be arrested. I have given, in such cases,three grains three times a day, in the form of a pill, and con-tinued it for some time. 1765. It may also be useful in cases of polypi, when it shall bedesirable to force these substances beyond the neck of the uterus, • See Chapter «u Uterine Hemorrhage from the location of the placenta. • 640 ON THE SECALE CORNUTUM, OK BBGOT. for the purpose of applying a ligature, or with a view to theirexcision. I have some time since suggested its probable useful-ness in hydatids of the uterus;* and its value in such cases Irasbeen in part realized by Dr. * See Treatise on the Diseases of Females, Chapter on Hydatids of the Ute-rus, by the author. f See his interesting1 case in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences,No. I. November, 1827, and, also, in the chapter just referred to. /•/,. /.. ( 041 ) EXPLANATION OF PLATE I. (from baudelocque.) A, A, A, A, The ossa ilia, properly so called,a, a, The iliac , bb, The angle which divides transversely and oblique-ly from behind forward, the internal face of theos ilium into two parts, and which makes part ofthe brim of the pelvis,cc, cc, The cristae of the ossa ilia,e, e, The anterior superior spine of the ossa ilia,f, f, The angle formed by the internal lip of the cristaof the ilium towards the extremity of its anteriortwo-thirds, and to which is attached a ligamentinserted at the other end in the transverse apo-physis of the last lumbar , g, The inferior angle of the os ilium, which makespart of the acetabulum. B, B, The os ischium. h, h, The tuberosities of the ischia. i,i, The branches of the , k, The posterior parts of the ossa isc


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