Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Obliquely Contracted Pelvis: Containing Also an Appendix of the Most Important Defects of the Female Pelvis
The old Paris foot or French foot (pied de roi) is the one used by the author throughout the text. It equals cm, whereas the foot used by us today equals cm.
The Paris foot is divided into 12 Zoll, or inches. The Zoll is shown thus or by using the word inch.
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