The Dublin practice of midwifery / By Henry Maunsell.

  • Henry Maunsell
Date:
1834
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Credit: The Dublin practice of midwifery / By Henry Maunsell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    month the cervix begins to be distended, and be- comes softer and spongy. Until the fifth month the weight of the uterus acts in depressing it into the vagina, so that we can feel the os tincse more readily than in the un- impregnated condition : but as the cervix becomes distended, and the uterus rises into the abdomen, the vagina becomes more elevated, and the os more distant from the finger. In the seventh month the womb reaches usually to the umbilicus, and the cervix is so much developed that we can often feel through it the head of the child. In the eighth month the fundus gets to about half way between the umbilicus and sternum, and the orifice is on a I level with the brim of the pelvis. In the ninth month the upper extremity of the womb is very near the ensiform cartilage, the cervix is com- pletely taken up into the general cavity of the uterus, and the os changed from a transverse slit into a round rugous hole, placed without any pro- jection in the lesser extremity of the organ. The situation of the full-sized womb is oblique, with the os -directed backwards toward the sa- • crum, and the fundus forwards, so that its axis is : nearly identical with that of the brim, being de- ? scribed by an imaginary right line passing from tthe scrobiculus cordis to the point of the sacrum, —a circumstance that requires to be understood, when it is necessary to pass the hand into the
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