"Pubic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... if a man builds a house he doth not in the first place provide a plan which governs his work? And shall the pubic act without an end, a view, ...
— The Querist • George Berkeley
... ischiadic foramen differs considerably, being nearly circular in Bantams, instead of egg-shaped as in the Bankiva, and more regularly oval in some skeletons, as in the Spanish. The obturator notch is also much less elongated in some skeletons than in others. The end of the pubic bone presents the greatest difference; being hardly enlarged in the Bankiva; considerably and gradually enlarged in Cochins, and in a lesser degree in some other breeds; and abruptly enlarged in Bantams. In one Bantam this bone extended very little beyond the extremity of ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin
... parturition should be attended by so much pain and difficulty. Savages in their primitive and natural state seem to have difficulty in many cases, and even animals are not free from it. We read of the ancient wild Irish women breaking the pubic bones of their female children shortly after birth, and by some means preventing union subsequently, in order that these might have less trouble in child-birth—as it were, a modified and early form of symphysiotomy. In consequence of this custom the females ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould |
