Intermarriage; or, The mode in which and the causes why, beauty, health and intellect, result from certain unions, and deformity, disease and insanity from others (electronic resource)- demonstrated (14782457564)

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Title: Intermarriage; or, The mode in which and the causes why, beauty, health and intellect, result from certain unions, and deformity, disease and insanity from others (electronic resource): demonstrated by delineation of the structure and forms, and descriptions of the functions and capacities, which each parent, in every pair, bestows on children-in conformity with certain natural laws, and by an account of corresponding effects in the breeding of animals, with eight illustrative drawings
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Walker, Alexander
Subjects: Eugenics Genetic Processes Marriage Reproduction Sexual Behavior Sexuality Social Behavior Mother-Child Relations
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakiston
Contributing Library: Emory University, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library



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avity of the pelvis; whenthe irregularities of the hip bones elevate it too muchon one side ; when the the thighs press too muchagainst each other in walking ; and whenever thereremain any traces of rachitis, such as crookedness io VITAL SYSTEM. 337 the long bones, or any extraordinary development oftheir extremities. It is observed, nevertheless, that there are semevery deformed women in whom the pelvis possesses itsnatural proportions, so that they are delivered withease ; whilst there are many who, with the appear-ance of regular conformation, have some malformationthat renders their first accouchement almost inevitablymortal. As some persons may feel disposed to measure theexterior of a young female pelvis, for the purpose offorming a somewhat correct opinion as to its capacity,and whether delivery will be easy, or if the assistanceof art will be necessary, the following calculationshave been given, as nearest to the true dimensions infemales of middle size and moderate plumpness.
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** From the upper part of the pubic eminence to thesacrum, above the projection formed by the spinal ?M 338 CHOICE IN INTERMARRIAGE. apophysis of the last lumber vertebra, there are, in awell-ibrmed pelvis, seven French inches; (190 millimetres) from the extreme projection of one hanch oispine of the ilium to the other, eleven inches, sislines ; (300 millimetres) from the extreme projectioKof one hanch to the top of the tuberosity of theischium of the same side, seven inches, eight lines(200 millimetres.) A knowledge of the extent of the sacro-pubicdiameter, is almost always the most important as re-gards any conception of the issue of a laboriousdelivery. The best method of obtaining this, in aliving person, is, in measuring the exterior of the pel-vis, to deduct from the total space existing between thepubic eminence, and the top of the spinal apophysis ofthe first false vertebra of the sacrum, the knownthickness of the base of that bone, and of the articu-lation of the pubes, in ad