The principles and practice of midwifery : with some of the diseases of women.

  • Milne, Alexander
Date:
1871
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Credit: The principles and practice of midwifery : with some of the diseases of women. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    .some authoi\s, such as Miiller and Carpenter, liave de- nied the existence in the female of a sensorial orgasm ; others, like John Hunter, believe in it. The sexual paroxysm begins in the clitoris, and ends in a sensorial orgasm; the clitoris, as Hionis has it, being the seat of tliat great pleasure which women have in the venereal act. Some of the older physicians held the view that women in Avhom the venereal oi’gasm was awanting were sterile; but this is not the case. C IT APT EH III. INTERNAL ORGANS OF GENERATION. 47. The uterus, Matrix, or Womb, is tlie most important of the internal organs of generation. It receives and gives lodgement to the ovum, nourishes it until mature, and then efieets its expulsion. It is placed at the upper paid of the A'agina, in the middle of the u]iper paid of the jiclvis, with the bladder in front and the rectum behind, its upper edge appearing slightly above the pelvic brim. The shape of the unimpregnated uterus is jiyriforin, or, as older writers say, like a flattened pear ; it is rounder po.steriorly than anteriorly. In length it is about 2| in. ; in breadth, at the widest jiart, about 1J in. At the ceiwix it is about an incli. It is about an inch thick from before backwards, and its walls at tlic tliickest paid are about -1, an inch diameter. Tlio weight of tlie organ is about 7 drams. At the lower part is the os uteri, or mouth of the 'womb. It has two li])s, an anterior and a posterior. It approaches the oval in shape, its diameter transversely lieing greater than from before backwards. The posterior li]) is obscured rather