The Hahnemannian monthly . -tion in an erect attitude. The best attempt I have seen is that made by Dr. S. J. Donald-son, of New York, who published an article on bodily posture ingynecology, in the Am. Jour, of Obstet., vol. 18, 1885. This is a most valuable contribution to this subject, presentingphotographs and diagrams illustrating what he deems to be correctupright positions and relationships, andyet he has shown what seems 12 The Hahnemannian Monthly. [January, to me to be faulty attitudes. I think it the more strange that theseerrors are being made from the fact that correct data have b


The Hahnemannian monthly . -tion in an erect attitude. The best attempt I have seen is that made by Dr. S. J. Donald-son, of New York, who published an article on bodily posture ingynecology, in the Am. Jour, of Obstet., vol. 18, 1885. This is a most valuable contribution to this subject, presentingphotographs and diagrams illustrating what he deems to be correctupright positions and relationships, andyet he has shown what seems 12 The Hahnemannian Monthly. [January, to me to be faulty attitudes. I think it the more strange that theseerrors are being made from the fact that correct data have been givenin such standard authority as Grays Anatomy, On, page 2(39, edition of 1887, we find the statement that the line ofgravity of the head, in the erect position, passes through the middleof the odontoid process of the axis, and downward through the pointsof junction of the curves of the vertebral column to the sacro-vertebralangle, and then descends to the front of the pelvic cavity, so that it Fig. 1. Fig 2. Fig.


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