Outlines of the theory and practice of midwifery / by Alexander Hamilton, M.D. F.R.S. Edin. ; Professor of midwifery in the university, and member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.

  • Hamilton, Alexander, 1739-1802.
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MDCCXC [1790]
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Credit: Outlines of the theory and practice of midwifery / by Alexander Hamilton, M.D. F.R.S. Edin. ; Professor of midwifery in the university, and member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    part, downwards and backwards as a tranfverfe fecli- 011 of two-fifths of the acetabulum ox cavity which re- ceives the round head of the thigh-bone, and for- wards to a little below the projection or ridge which forms the brim of the pelvis. Hence a fmall por- tion of the ilium, only, belongs to the pelvis, the expanded part being placed entirely without the brim. The different parts of the ilium are, the fuperior fe- micircular ridge or fpine, giving rife to feveral ine- qualities or prominences, termedfpi'rialproceJJ'cs ; two broad furfaces, improperly named dorfum and cojla; the fmall irregular furface by which it is joined to the facrum pofteriorly ; the lower, thick, narrow part of the acetabulum; and, the ridge or projection at the inferior anterior part. 1. The Os Ifchium, or Seat-bone, called alfo Huc- kle or Hip-bone, is the inferior lateral portion of the os innominatum. Its figure is very irregular, and its extent may be marked by a line drawn through near the middle of the acetabulum- The feveral parts of this bnne are, the Body, Tu- berofity, and Ramus. The Body forms the lowed and greateft part of the acetabulum ; the fmall branch, or Ramus, makes up four-fifths of the great hole com- mon to this bone and the Pubis, called foramen ovale or thyroides; and the inferior bump, flattened by preffure, is the Tuberofity which fupports us in a fitting pofture. The tuber is nearly cartilaginous at birth, and afterwards becomes an cpiphyfe, 3. The