The principles and practice of obstetrics . of mollitisium in adults. It is, however, important to 1mind, that while the deformity arising from rickiin the adult woman stationary, ossification haying beencompleted, and the disease virtually terminated ; vol,in mollities ossium, the disease may still be piand, of course, the deformity increasing. Henocause a woman is delivered easily in one or two labors,it cannot be assumed that subsequent labors will be asfavorable. On the contrary, they may be far moredangerous and difficult from the continually increasingdeformity. The above remarks of the
The principles and practice of obstetrics . of mollitisium in adults. It is, however, important to 1mind, that while the deformity arising from rickiin the adult woman stationary, ossification haying beencompleted, and the disease virtually terminated ; vol,in mollities ossium, the disease may still be piand, of course, the deformity increasing. Henocause a woman is delivered easily in one or two labors,it cannot be assumed that subsequent labors will be asfavorable. On the contrary, they may be far moredangerous and difficult from the continually increasingdeformity. The above remarks of the modus operandi ofsure in producing deformity of the pelvis, are givenmerely to illustrate the general characters of such de-viations, and tbe types which learned pathologists havedescribed. Of course, it is impossible to specify thevarieties that exist in each type. They are exceedinglynumerous; bence, individual cases must be most care-fully and accurately investigated by the -practitioner,as they may be presented at the bedside. Fig. Oblique-Oval Pelvis. (NaegclS.) M. Naegele, bowever, has described another varietyof deformed pelvis, where he believes there has beenno predisposition existing, and where there hasno actual disease in the bones. He considers it as an original defect of organization. When the pelvis isexamined, the bones are found, as to their density, theirwbiteness, and tbeir weight, very similar to those of abealthy pelvis. The great peculiarity of this defor-mity is, that there is a deficiency of development ofone half the sacrum, and the whole of one os innorni-natum; tbus, one-balf of tbe pelvis is smaller thanthe other. Hence, tbe depth from the crest of the THE OBLIQUE-OVAL PELVIS. 391 ilium to the tuber ischii, is less upon the affectedside, and the semi-circumference of the superior straitof the same side is also diminished. Nsegele states,that in all the specimens he has seen, there is nosacro-iliac symphysis; ossification there existing, sothat t
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