The matron's manual of midwifery, and the diseases of women during pregnancy and in childbed .. . n Plate XLIV. This is another deformity, in which one side is sunk belowthe other, and both twisted round the Plate XLV. The effect of corroding disease. CAUSES WHICH DIFKDE LABOK. 2S1 Curvature of the spine sometimes affects the pelvis,when low down, and therefore if any female isaffected with it she should not marry Ijefore beingexamined. Several diseases and lesions of the hip-joint, and of the thigh, may also do the same, andshould therefore be suspected. In the great majority of case
The matron's manual of midwifery, and the diseases of women during pregnancy and in childbed .. . n Plate XLIV. This is another deformity, in which one side is sunk belowthe other, and both twisted round the Plate XLV. The effect of corroding disease. CAUSES WHICH DIFKDE LABOK. 2S1 Curvature of the spine sometimes affects the pelvis,when low down, and therefore if any female isaffected with it she should not marry Ijefore beingexamined. Several diseases and lesions of the hip-joint, and of the thigh, may also do the same, andshould therefore be suspected. In the great majority of cases, deformities of thepelvis remain unknown, till the period of delivery,and all that can be then done is to combat in thebest possible way the difficulties they create. It isevident that the amount of difficulty depends entirelyon the disproportion between the head of the child,and the passage through which it has to be born. Ifthe head be large and the passage small the difficultywill be greatest, but if the head be small it maypass through the pelvis though under its averagesize. The developement of the head cannot be as-certained however, before birth, except when it isunusually large from dropsy, and it i
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