On sterility in the male and female : its causes and treatment / By the Chevalier V. Mondat ... Tr. from the 5th French ed.

  • Vincent-Marie Mondat
Date:
1844
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Credit: On sterility in the male and female : its causes and treatment / By the Chevalier V. Mondat ... Tr. from the 5th French ed. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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    [Fig. 11.] 1. Section of the womb, upper part. 2. Section of side. 3. Section of lateral covering. 4. Section of lower part of womb. 5. Cavity of the womb. 6. A prominence leading from the openings of the Fallopian tubes. 7. The vagina. 8 and 9. Fallopian tube cut open. 10 and 16. The fimbriated ex- tremity of the tube. 11. The pavilion. 12. The ovary. 13. Vesicles in ovary. 14. Continuation of ovary. 15. Ligament of ovary. 17. Pavilion of right ovary. 18. Right ovary. 19. Connecting band. brane of the uterus, and of a proper tissue, which seems to possess some degree of erectility. The use of the tubes is to establish a communica- tion between the uterus and the ovaries; but this com- munication only seems to take place at the moment of coition, and by a kind of erection of the fimbriated edge, which then embraces the ovaries, and forms a passage which transmits from this organ to the uterus what the female furnishes in generation, and probably from the uterus to the ovary, the fecundating principle which comes from the male. ^III. ORGANS OF PRESERVATION. Uterus, Anatomy.—Although our opinions differ materially
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