To the doctrine of the size and shape of the pelvis of an adult woman. - The pelvis of a Polish woman. Preliminary announcement

Three and half a century separate us from the moment in which the work of the famous anatomist Vesalius 1) shed a ray of light into the dark area of the study of his predecessors about the normal basin. The ancient scholarship about the pelvis, based on the belief that the pelvis is a narrow channel, with the walls moving apart during childbirth, should have fallen before the anatomical description of the pelvis by Vesal, despite the fact that the defenders of this scholarship were Ambroise Par 2) and, in , Severinus Pinacus 3).