The Dublin practice of midwifery / By Henry Maunsell.

  • Henry Maunsell
Date:
1834
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    off on each side from the fundus uteri, close to the insertion of the tubes, and, passing out of the abdomen through the inguinal ring, are lost upon the mons veneris and labia. They are composed of a number of blood-vessels, lymphatics, nerves, and cellular substance, and form a thick round cord. The use of these ligaments has been much disputed. By Sir C. Bell* they have been in- geniously supposed to answer the purpose of ten- dons, and to furnish a fixed point for the two cir- cular muscles, which he has described as existing at the fundus of the womb. Professor Jdrgf, of Leipsic, believes that they communicate sensation from the clitoris to the Fallopian tubes and ovaries at the moment of coition, so as to establish a con- sent of all the parts concerned in generation. The Fallopian tubes are two firm cords, about four inches in length, formed of a spongy cavern- ous tissue, with blood-vessels, lymphatics, nerves, and probably muscular fibres. They contain a canal, which opens into the fundus of the uterus upon each side, by an opening merely large enough to contain a bristle. The canal enlarges as it runs toward the opposite free extremity, and opens into the cavity of the peritoneum, its termination being surrounded by fimbrise, and denominated the morsus diaholi. The tubes lie in the upper fold of the broad ligaments in a very tortuous manner. * Med. Chir. Trans, vol. iv. f Handbuch der Gebustshiilfe. Leipzig, 1833.
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