Ossa innominata.--Sacrum.--Coccyx.--Distinction between the male and female pelvis.--Diameters of the pelvis.--Pelvis before puberty.--Axes.--Inclination, 15 CHAPTER II. FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION. Internal and external.--Ovaria.--Ovum.--Corpus luteum.-- Fallopian tubes.--Uterus.--Vagina.--Hymen.--Clitoris.-- Nymphæ.--Labia, 22 CHAPTER III. DEVELOPMENT OF THE OVUM. Membrana decidua.--Chorion.--Amnion.--Placenta.--Umbilical cord.--Embryo.--Foetal circulation, 48 PART II. NATURAL PREGNANCY AND ITS DEVIATIONS. CHAPTER I. SIGNS OF PREGNANCY. Difficulty and importance of the subject.--Diagnosis in the early months.--Auscultation.--Changes in the vascular and nervous systems.--Morning sickness.--Changes in the appearance of the skin.--Cessation of the menses.--Areola.--Sensation of the child's movements.--"Quickening."--Auscultation.--Uterine souffle.--Sound of the foetal heart.--Funic souffle.--Sound produced by the movements of the foetus.--Ballottement.--State of the urine.--Violet appearance of the mucous membrane of the vagina.--Cases of doubtful pregnancy.--Diagnosis of twin pregnancy, 80 CHAPTER II. TREATMENT OF PREGNANCY. Sympathetic affections of the stomach during pregnancy.-- Morning sickness.--Constipation.--Flatulence.--Colicky pains.--Headach.--Spasmodic cough.--Palpitation.--Toothach.-- Diarrhoea.--Pruritus pupendi.--Salivation, 101 CHAPTER III. SIGNS OF THE DEATH OF THE FOETUS. Difficulty of the subject.--Signs before labour.--Motion of the foetus.--Sound of the foetal heart.--Uterine souffle.-- Signs during labour where the head presents--where the face, the nates, the arm, or the cord, present.--Fetid liquor amnii.--Discharge of meconium, 107 CHAPTER IV. MOLE PREGNANCY. Nature and origin.--Varieties.--Diagnostic symptoms.-- Treatment, 112 CHAPTER V. EXTRA-UTERINE PREGNANCY. Tubarian, ovarian, and ventral pregnancy.--Pregnancy in the substance of the uterus, 117 CHAPTER VI. RETROVERSION OF THE UTERUS. History.--Causes.--Symptoms.--Diagnosis.--Treatment.-- Spontaneous terminations, 126 CHAPTER VII. DURATION OF PREGNANCY, 136 CHAPTER VIII. PREMATURE EXPULSION OF THE FOETUS. Abortion.--Miscarriage.--Premature labour.--Causes.-- Symptoms.--Prophylactic measures.--Effects of repeated abortion.--Treatment, 141 PART III. EUTOCIA, OR NATURAL PARTURITION. CHAPTER I. STAGES OF LABOUR.