The Dublin practice of midwifery / by Henry Maunsell.

  • Henry Maunsell
Date:
1856
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Credit: The Dublin practice of midwifery / by Henry Maunsell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The fourcheiie is the point of union of the labia posteriorly. The perineum is the space between the four- chette and anus. Its extent is from an inch to an inch and a half. It is lined internally Ijy the mucous membrane of the vagina, and externally covered by the skin. Between these there is cel- lular substance, and some muscular fibres. Internal organs.'—These consist of the vagina, uterus, FaUopian tubes, and ovaries. The vagina is the membranous canal leading from the vulva to the uterus. It is cm^ed with a concavity forwards, to such an extent that its axis coincides with that portion of the ciu'ved line, already mentioned as describing the axis of the pelvis, which describes the axis of the outlet. It is formed of dense ceUular membrane, surrounded throughout by numerous nerves and vessels, and at the lower part by muscular fibres, forming a species of sphincter. At about an inch from the orifice (which is its narrowest part), the vessels are collected into a cavernous tissue, denominated the plexus retiformis. The internal surface is lined with raucous membrane, which, in the young subject, is arranged into transverse folds or rugse ; it has also many orifices of mucous glands. The superior extremity of the vagina passes up nearly
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