A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . 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 Fig. 5.—Harriss pelvimeter. The external pelvic measurements are taken with an instru-ment called a pelvimeter (Fig. 5), which acts on the principle

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