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Title: A set of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment of the practice of midwifery : with a view to illustrate a treatise on that subject, and collection of cases
Year: 1793 (1790s)
Authors: Smellie, William, 1697-1763 Hamilton, Alexander, 1739-1802 Young, Thomas, d. 1783 Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831, printer Andrews, Ebenezer Turrell, 1766-1851, bookseller Carlisle, David, 1768?-1835, bookseller
Subjects: Midwifery Delivery, Obstetric Parturition Medical Illustration
Publisher: Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts : By Isaiah Thomas sold at his bookstore in Worcester by said Thomas, and Andrews, Faust's Statue, Newbury Street, Boston and by said Thomas, and Carlisle, in Walpole, Newhampshire
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
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D. The remaining poitcrior parts of the 0/-ja Ifchulm. E. The Coccyx. F. The inferior part of the Retlum. G. G. G. The Vagina ftrctched on each Gde.H. The Os Uteri, the lips of which appear larger and fofter than in the foregoing table, theneck of the Womb being likewife ilrctched to itsfull extent, or entirely obliterated. I.I. Part of the Vefica Urinaria. K. K. The Placenta at the fuperior and pof-terior part of the Uterus. L. L. The Membranes. M. The Funis Umbilicalis. This and the foregoing table (how in whatmanner the Uterus flretches, and how its neckgrows fhorter, in the different periods of preg-nancy ; as alfo the magnitude of the Fcrlus, inorder more fully tp explain Vol. I. Book I. Chap.3. Sea. 4, 5. Alfo Book III. Chap. 1. Sect. 1, 2.Likewife Vol. II. Coll. 13. No. 1. Notwithstanding it has been handed down asan invariable truth, from the carliefl accounts ofthe art, to the prefent times, that when the headof the Foetus prefented, the face was turned to the pollcnor * //,,
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with EXPLANATIONS, &c. 23 pofterior part of the Pelvis, yet from Mr. Ovidsobfervation, as well as from fome late diffeclionsof the gravid Uterus, and what I myfelf have ob-ferved in pra&ife, I am led to believe that thehead prefents for the mod part as is here delin-eated, with one ear to the Pubes, and the other tothe Os Sacrum ; though fometimes this may vary,according to the form of the head, as well as thatof the Pelvis. Confult Dr. Hunters elegant plates of the grav-id Uterus. TENTH TABLE Gives a front view of Twins in Utero, in the be-ginning of labour, the anterior parts beingremoved, as in the preceding tables. A. The Uterus, as ftretched with the Membranesand waters. B. B. The fuperior parts of the OJfa Ilium. C. C. The Acetabula. D. D. The OJfa Ifchium. E. The Coccyx. F. The lower part of the Retlum. G. G. The Vagina. H. The Os Internum ftretched open about afingers breadth with the Membranes and watersin time of labour pains. Ba I.I. The 24 ANATOMICAL I. I. The infe

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