The practice of medicine and surgery : applied to the diseases and accidents incident to women / by W. H. Byford ... and Henry T. Byford.

  • William Heath Byford
Date:
1888
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Credit: The practice of medicine and surgery : applied to the diseases and accidents incident to women / by W. H. Byford ... and Henry T. Byford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    what to the left of the median position. It has three systems of sup- ports : the pelvic roof, or the sustaining ; the pelvic floor, or retaining; and the perineum, or supplementary support. I. Pelvic Roof. The pelvic roof is formed by the expansion and reduplication of the peritoneum upon and between the pelvic viscera, with whose FiG. 2. Sagittal Section of Pelvic Organs of Child-bearing Woman {]4). iP, vaginal promontory. (See Fig. 1 for further explanation.) walls, and the circumposed connective, muscular, vascular, and glandular tissues, it unites to form an exceedingly elastic and per- fectly adequate uterine support. These duplicatures or folds are called the pubo-uterine, or pubo-vesico-uterine, in front, stretching from the pubes to the anterior surface of the uterus; the sacro-uterine or sacro-recto-uterine (folds of Douglas, or posterior suspensory liga- ments) behind, passing from the posterior walls of the uterus and vagina to the sacrum ; and the broad ligaments (ligamenta lata, alar ligaments) on the sides passing across the anterior and posterior