A theoretical and practical treatise on midwifery : including the diseases of pregnancy and parturition and the attentions required by the child from birth to the period of weaning . These three figures give an idea of the gradual dilatation which the cavity of the neck undergoes atvarious periods of pregnancy. B. The form of the neck is altogether different in women who have had chil-dren ; thus the inequalities and protuberances exhibited by the inferior partwill scarcely permit us to ascertain whether it becomes more pointed or not, andit is equally difficult to determine whether the extern
A theoretical and practical treatise on midwifery : including the diseases of pregnancy and parturition and the attentions required by the child from birth to the period of weaning . These three figures give an idea of the gradual dilatation which the cavity of the neck undergoes atvarious periods of pregnancy. B. The form of the neck is altogether different in women who have had chil-dren ; thus the inequalities and protuberances exhibited by the inferior partwill scarcely permit us to ascertain whether it becomes more pointed or not, andit is equally difficult to determine whether the external orifice has become morerounded; because, having been somewhat patulous before pregnancy, this orifice,^ in consequence of the numerous cicatrices found on it, presents a very irregular opening. The only point capable of demonstration in the early periods is, thatthe partially opened orifice will dilate still further, so as to admit readily theextremity of the fore-finger. This spreading out of the os tincse, and the inferior part of the neck, con-stantly increases from below upwards, as the gestation progresses; it reaches themiddle part of the cervix about the seventh mon
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