A nurse's handbook of obstetrics . Fig. 3.—Male and female pelvis. A, male pelvis—narrow, heavy, compact; B, femalepelvis—broad, light, capacious. it is designed. It is shallow, but very capacious, lighter in struc-ture and smoother than the male pelvis, which is deep, conical,rougher for muscular attachment, and more compact. The entire problem in obstetrics consists in the safe passageof the fully developed foetus through the pelvis of the pelvic contractions, resulting in tedious or instrumenta! 32 A NURSES HANDBOOK OF OBSTETRICS. deliveries, are comparatively common, while an
A nurse's handbook of obstetrics . Fig. 3.—Male and female pelvis. A, male pelvis—narrow, heavy, compact; B, femalepelvis—broad, light, capacious. it is designed. It is shallow, but very capacious, lighter in struc-ture and smoother than the male pelvis, which is deep, conical,rougher for muscular attachment, and more compact. The entire problem in obstetrics consists in the safe passageof the fully developed foetus through the pelvis of the pelvic contractions, resulting in tedious or instrumenta! 32 A NURSES HANDBOOK OF OBSTETRICS. deliveries, are comparatively common, while any such marked de-formity as depicted in Fig. 4 would render labor by the natural. Fig. 4.—Female pelvis deformed by osteomalacia. (Garrigues.) passages entirely out of the question. For these reasons thepelvis of every pregnant woman should be measured carefullyat a sufficiently early date to enable the physician to determinedefinitely the proper course to pursue.
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