A text-book of practical obstetrics, comprising pregnancy, labor, and the puerpal state, and obstetric surgery . Fig. 4.—Schultzes Pelvimeter. Fig. 5.—Collyers Pocket Pelvimeter. indispensable to the obstetrician as is the microscope to thephysiologist, and, therefore, that it should be associated withpregnancy in his mind as the forceps is with labor. (Figs. 2, 3,4, and 5.) External Diameters of Pelvis. The following external diameters are of chief obstetricsignificance: The distance between the anterior superior spinesof the ilium, that between the crests of the ilium, that between 12 OBSTET
A text-book of practical obstetrics, comprising pregnancy, labor, and the puerpal state, and obstetric surgery . Fig. 4.—Schultzes Pelvimeter. Fig. 5.—Collyers Pocket Pelvimeter. indispensable to the obstetrician as is the microscope to thephysiologist, and, therefore, that it should be associated withpregnancy in his mind as the forceps is with labor. (Figs. 2, 3,4, and 5.) External Diameters of Pelvis. The following external diameters are of chief obstetricsignificance: The distance between the anterior superior spinesof the ilium, that between the crests of the ilium, that between 12 OBSTETRIC SURGERY. the trochanters, that between the spinous process of the lastlumbar vertebra and the centre of the anterior surface of thepubic bones (the diameter of Beaudelocque). These are theessential measurements which are to be obtained by means ofthe pelvimeter. The objection which has, over and over again,been made to this instrument, that the patient will object to theexposure which it entails, will not hold, for the reason that thereneed be none, as the patient is covered by a sheet; and, instead
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