Dr. Conquest's outlines of midwifery : intended as a text-book for students, and a book of reference for junior practitioners.

  • Conquest, Dr.
Date:
1854
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    with the intercostal, establish sympathy with various parts of the body. [It is important to bear in mind that the uterus is supplied by two classes of nerves,— the excito-motor, derived from the cerebro-spinal system; and the ganglionic, from the great sympathetic nerve. — J. M. W.] Its arteries are four: two spermatic, which are distributed to the fundus uteri and the appendages of the uterus; and two hypogastric, which supply the cervix and corpus. These vessels freely anas- tomose with each other. Its veins bear the same name as the arteries. The right spermatic veins terminate in the vena cava, and the left is the renal. The hypogastric empty them- selves into the external hemorrhoidal and internal iliac veins. Its absorbents are very numerous, though small. In the gravid uterus, their diameter becomes much auo-- mented, and they may be distinctly seen on the sur- face, and in the substance of the organ. They pass into the iliac glands. The muscular fibres run in all directions, taking an orbicular, transverse, and reticulated course. At the cervLs uteri, and its superior angles, these fibres may be most distinctly seen.* * Vide an instructive paper on this subject by Mi-. Charles Bell m the 4th vol. of the Medieo-chirurgical Transactions ; and another equally so by Madame Boivin, in the Mcmoires do rAcademie Royalc de Medecinc.