. An American text-book of obstetrics. For practitioners and students. Fig. 293.—Modern combination of Bau-delocques and Osianders pelvimeter. Fig. 294.—Osianderspelvimeter. Fig. 29.).—Martinspelvimeter. salient points on the womans body corresponding as nearlv as possible withthe internal measurements desired ; the relations between the two last havingbeen ascertained by many observations on dead and living bodies. For taking DYSTOCIA. 501 pelvic measurements the examiners fingers, a tape measure, and a modifiedmathematicians callipers—a pelvimeter—are usually employed. Baudelocque(1775) was
. An American text-book of obstetrics. For practitioners and students. Fig. 293.—Modern combination of Bau-delocques and Osianders pelvimeter. Fig. 294.—Osianderspelvimeter. Fig. 29.).—Martinspelvimeter. salient points on the womans body corresponding as nearlv as possible withthe internal measurements desired ; the relations between the two last havingbeen ascertained by many observations on dead and living bodies. For taking DYSTOCIA. 501 pelvic measurements the examiners fingers, a tape measure, and a modifiedmathematicians callipers—a pelvimeter—are usually employed. Baudelocque(1775) was the first to devise the pelvimeter in ordinary use. He laid thefoundations of pelvimetry, and his instrument and methods are in use at thepresent time (Figs. 293-296). It is convenient to describe the measurementsof the diameters of the pelvic inlet, pelvic cavity, and pelvic outlet of the Antero-posterior Diameter of the Superior Strait.—This measurement, the most important in the pelvis, cannot be takendirectly. It must be estima
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