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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    ment much as a tadpole uses its tail. A spermatozoon in this way meets an ovum or female element, the two join and become a fertilized egg or seed, which grows into a baby, provided the wall of the womb on which the seed is planted and other general conditions are favourable. THE OVARIES, FALLOPIAN TUBES, UTERUS AND VAGINA To understand conception and pregnancy better, you must understand the female organs which are made for con- nut. As the testicles or male organs bear the male elements or spermatozoa, so the ovaries bear the female elements or ova (ovum—Latin for egg). In the diagram at 1 you see the ova lying in the ovary. At 2 you see one ovum has burst from the ovary and is falling into a trumpet-shaped cup. This is exactly what hapj^ens in a woman. It usually happens just at the end of a menstrual period, which is OV/»f?Y ception and child- bearing. These organs all he in a woman’s pelvis, and are protected by the strong pelvic bones. Fig. 1.—Diagram to sliow process of fertiliza- tion and conception. The Ovary.—The first organs Avith which Ave are con- cerned are the ovaries, for there are tAvo, one on the left of the Avomb and the other on the right. The ovary is an oval body, Avhitish in colour and about the size of an almond
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