Rotunda midwifery for nurses and midwives / by G.T. Wrench.

  • Guy T. Wrench
Date:
1908
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Credit: Rotunda midwifery for nurses and midwives / by G.T. Wrench. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE CONDITION OF PREGNANCY What is Conception ?—You are probably reminded by the word conception of the Biblical plirase “ She conceived and bare a child.” It is necessary that you should under- stand how conception occurs, for it helps you to understand the anatomy and arrangement of the womb and other sexual organs of the woman. Except in the very lowest forms of hfe, a new individual is always created by the union of a male with a female ele- ment. Both these elements are so small that they can only be seen by means of a microscope. Again, it is a law of nature that the male element moves to and finds the female element. For example, in the vegetable world the pollen or male element is carried to the ovum or female element either on the bodies of insects or by the wind. The poUen, for instance, of pine trees, which forms the fine yellow dust you see in the spring in pine woods, has two little bladders so that it can be blown by the wind towards other pine trees and reach the ovum or female element on the small fiowers of these other pine trees. When it has reached it, the male element joins with the ovum, and the ovum is said to be fertihzed and becomes a seed, which, properly nomdshed and under suitable conditions, wiU grow into a new pine tree. In human beings the same sort of tiring happens. The male elements, or spermatozoa, as the result of cohabitation, pass from the testis down the tube of the male organ into the vagina of the female. They are able to move by a long tail which each possesses, which is used for move- 6
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