Author: LITZMANN, C.C.TH.
Title: Die Formen des Beckens insbesondere des engen weiblichen Beckens, nach eigene Beobachtungen und Untersuchungen nebst einem Anhange über die Osteomalacie.
Description: Berlin, G.Reimer, 1861. 4to. W. 6 chromo lith. pls. at the end after drawings by Wittmaack. Modern marbled brds. (VI, 152, II pp.). (Initial 10 pp. of the text and first plate some medium foxing, else mild foxing and a few spots.). Hirsch III, p. 809: Fasbender, pp. 297/8: G&M, 6263: 'Litzmann devised a clinical classification of pelves which was for many years generally used, and he described various deformities of the female pelvis'.: Speert, Pictorial history, pp. 217 - 218: '... one of the classics of obstetrical literature (which) contains ... one of the most lucid and succinct interpretive descriptions of the female pelvis ever written...': Graham, pp. 545 - 546: Norman Collection, item 1376: 'He [Litzmann] established that a true conjugate diameter of three and one-half inches or less represented a pelvic contraction in the obstetric sense and gave a classic definition of the female pelvis and its functions.'

Keywords: orthopaedics obstetrics gynaecology pelvimetry medicine German