Practical manual of diseases of women and uterine therapeutics : for students and practitioners / by H. MacNaughton-Jones.

Date:
1900
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Credit: Practical manual of diseases of women and uterine therapeutics : for students and practitioners / by H. MacNaughton-Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    It is necessary to remember the columns and rugse which project from the vaginal walls, and which give cover to leucorrhceal and other discharges. We speak familiarly of the anterior vaginal and posterior vaginal fornix—important recesses, or cul de sacs, in front and behind the uterine neck, which have to be carefully explored in digital examinations. The vagina is materially influenced by the acts of respiration, being depressed during inspiration, rising again Fig. 3.—Section of the body of a woman, aged twenty-five, showing the Pelvic Viscera and Perinzecm. (From ‘Atlas of Descriptive Anatomy. After Heitzman.) during expiration. The position of the bladder, the distension of the rectum, the state of the superincumbent viscera, and pressure on the abdominal wall, all affect the vagina. The dense bed of cellular tissue which unites it to the base of the bladder, and, still lower down, and more intimately, to the urethia, affords a clue to the associated movement of the bladder, uterus, and vagina. Its
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