- Garrison-Morton 6256. / With stamps of The Hague gymnastic academy and gynaecologist H.B. Semmelink.
Naegele's "most important work concerned the anatomy of the pelvis and the problems presented by pelvic and spinal deformities in cases of difficult labor. This book. . ., based on his measurements of hundreds of patients and postmortem studies, gave a new precision to morphologic knowledge. The book comprises two parts. In the first, fourteen short anatomic chapters are devoted to his measurements and calculations undertaken to establish 'detailed knowledge of the form and conditions of all the points which constitute a well-made pelvis.' The second part contains a critical history of all that had been written on the subject of the pelvic axis since the pioneer study by Hendrik van Deventer, of Leyden, in 1701. Naegele's work not only was useful in itself but also set the example for much research during the next hundred years, which culminated in the classification of pelvic variations and their effects on labor published by the American obstetricians Caldwell and Moloy in 1933" (LeFanu, Lilly Library, p. 179). Naegele's "first studies on the obstetric pelvis resulted in a richly documented monograph, Das weibliche Becken, published in 1825. In this work he took issue with the previously held view that the axis of the pelvis is affected by changes in the position of the body" (Speert, Obstetric & Gynecologic Milestones, p. 179). Cutter & Viets, Short History of Midwifery, p. 204.