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 . d the inferior extremity directed from before backwards, andslightly from above downwards. It must not, however, be forgotten, that the direction just described belongsto the vertical posture, and that it becomes remarkably altered in the various at-titudes assumed by the female. Thus, whilst laying upon the back, as is usual inFrance during labor, the plane of the superior strait instead of looking upwardand forw
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 . d the inferior extremity directed from before backwards, andslightly from above downwards. It must not, however, be forgotten, that the direction just described belongsto the vertical posture, and that it becomes remarkably altered in the various at-titudes assumed by the female. Thus, whilst laying upon the back, as is usual inFrance during labor, the plane of the superior strait instead of looking upwardand forward will be turned upward and backward, and its axis directed fromabove downward and from behind forward. At the same time, the plane of theinferior strait, which before looked backward and downward, will be turned almostdirectly forward, its axis also passing directly from before backward. Finally,the terminal orifice formed by the contour of the vulva presents another plane, 54 FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION, which at the moment of delivery (the horizontal position heing still maintained))is directed upward and forward. In short, the central line followed by the foetus Fig. Position of the pelvis and the direction of its axis in the dorsal attitude assumed by the female during b. Total axis of the excavation, being a continuation of d b, the axis of the superior strait, c v. Peri-neum as distended at the moment of the passage of the head. r. Anal orifice, e v. Terminal plane of thepelvis. during its expulsion is a strongly-marked curve, whose concavity is turned almostdirectly upward (Fig. 7). CHAPTER II OF THE ORGANS OF GENERATION. The genital apparatus of the female is much more complicated than that ofthe male, and is composed of organs situated in the interior of the pelvis, and ofparts attached to its exterior. The former are the ovaries, Fallopian tubes, uterus,and vagina, and the latter, the mons veneris, vulva, and perineum. SECTION I. OF THE EXTERNAL PARTS O
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