Identifier: obstartc00meig (find matches)
Title: Obstetrics : the science and the art
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Meigs, Charles D. (Charles Delucena), 1792-1869
Subjects: Obstetrics Midwifery
Publisher: Philadelphia : Blanchard and Lea
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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is the most instructive illustration that Ihave ever met with in books on midwifery, and it is to be entirely con-fided in for its correctness. The subject was a young girl of 21 yearsof age, who committed suicide while menstruating. The specimen wasprepared in such a way as to enable Dr. Kolrausch to see it while lyingin a bath of alcohol covered with a glass plate. Looking downwardthrough a diopter firmly fixed ~ 1 inches above the glass plate, Dr.Kolrausch, using a pen dipped in printers ink softened with oil ofturpentine, drew every one of the lines with the utmost exactness onthe Intervening plate of glass—seeing them through the diopter; sothat thej could not, perhaps, be more correctly taken by a photograph.The copperplate was copied from the drawing. To the right is the buttuck covering the bisected sacrum, in front of THE PELVIS. 65 which is the rectum, which has been opened by the incision. On theleft, behind the os pubis, is the bladder of urine with its urethra. Fig. 18.
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Between the bladder and the rectum is the tube of the vagina sur-mounted by the uterus, whose summit or fundus does not rise quiteso high as the plane of the superior strait. The womb rests upon theupper end of the vagina, which incloses its cervical or neck portionand keeps it up in its place by means of its connection with the bladderin front and the rectum behind, and more than all by means of twoutero-sacral ligaments which tie the upper ends of the vagina and thewomb to a certain place about an inch and a half in front of the apexof the sacrum. T may here say, that as long as the utero-sacral liga-ments remain in a healthy state, preserving by their tone a due length,the womb cannot fall downwards or prolapse, because the cervix, beinginclosed within the upper end of the canal of the vagina, it can nut 66 THE PELVIS. move down unless that upper end of the vagina move down also,which, as above said, it cannot do except the ligamenta utero-sacraliagive way first. The length of the

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