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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    fibres of the unimpregnated uterus cannot be ob- served to follow any regular course: they possess all the powers, and most of the appearances, of muscle; although it is a favourite whim with cer- tain anatomists to deny them the name. Within the solid walls of the uterus a cavity is formed, triangular in that portion contained in the fundus, and vrith its loAver angle prolonged into a narrow canal, which passes through the body and cervix to the os tincfe. At the iipper angles on each side are situated the openings of the Fallo- pian tubes. The whole cavity is lined by mucous membrane continuous with that of the vagina. In the young subject, this is arranged into folds; it has numerous mucous lacunte, particularly in the cervix. The OS uteri is a transverse slit in the lower extremity of the cervix, varying in length from three to eight Imes. It has two lips, which in the virgin are smooth, but, in persons who have had children, they are frequently tuberculated and irregular. In the neighbourhood of the os are situated some foUicles, termed the glandulse Nabothi, which secrete a tough sebaceous matter, and are supposed to be the seat of the cancer that occasionally attacks this part. The situation of the uterus is near the middle of the pelvis, between the bladder and rectum, its axis coinciding wth that of the brim. It is covered
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