. The science and art of midwifery. er, London Obstet. Trans, vol. i, p. 309. X Wernich, Ueber die Zunahme der weiblichen Zeugungsfahigkeit, Bcitr. zurGeburtsh., Bd. 1, p. 3. % Duncan, Fecundity, Fertility, aud Sterility, p. Loc. cit., p. 10. 80 PHYSIOLOGY OF THE OVUM. head is the most voluminous and unyielding part which has to traversethe parturient canal.* The diameters of the head and the physicalcharacters of its bones are chiefly of importance in connection with themechanism of labor. Their consideration may, therefore, be conven-iently postponed to the study of that subject. A know
. The science and art of midwifery. er, London Obstet. Trans, vol. i, p. 309. X Wernich, Ueber die Zunahme der weiblichen Zeugungsfahigkeit, Bcitr. zurGeburtsh., Bd. 1, p. 3. % Duncan, Fecundity, Fertility, aud Sterility, p. Loc. cit., p. 10. 80 PHYSIOLOGY OF THE OVUM. head is the most voluminous and unyielding part which has to traversethe parturient canal.* The diameters of the head and the physicalcharacters of its bones are chiefly of importance in connection with themechanism of labor. Their consideration may, therefore, be conven-iently postponed to the study of that subject. A knowledge, how-ever, of the general structure of the skull is essential to the diagnosisof pregnancy. The face is very small in proportion to the cranium. The latterconsists of the two frontal bones, the two parietal bones, the occipitalbone, the temporal bones, and the alae of the sphenoid bone. Atbirth these various bones are not, as in the adult, directly articulatedtogether, but are united by means of fibrous bands, termed sutures,.
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