The female external genital organs : a criticism on current anatomical description / by D.S. Lamb.

  • Daniel Smith Lamb
Date:
1894
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Credit: The female external genital organs : a criticism on current anatomical description / by D.S. Lamb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    [Reprinted from the New York Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics for August, 1894. THE FEMALE EXTERNAL GENITAL ORGANS; A CRITI- CISM ON CURRENT ANATOMICAL DESCRIPTION* By D. S. Lamb, M. D., Army Medical Museum, Washington, D. C. Cullingworth, in the Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, London, April 19, 1893, p. 343 et seg., in an article intended to correct some erroneous statements in regard to the anatomy of the hymen and pos- terior commissure of the vulva, states that for many years it had been his custom to make vaginal examinations with the patient in the dor- sal position, knees flexed and widely separated and before a good light. In this position a full view of the vulva is obtained and he had thus been enabled to observe and demonstrate to his class the natural position and relations of the external genital organs as they are seen in the living subject and before the parts were in any way disturbed. The position and relations of the structures so displayed varied, of course, according as the subject was or was not a virgin or had or had not borne children. Other teachers beside Cullingworth have pursued a course more or less similar. He showed that there is much igno- rance in regard to the true anatomy of the pudenda, especially of the hymen and the posterior commissure; an ignorance not limited to students but extending even to professional obstetricians and gynae- * Read before the Association of American Anatomists, Washington, D. C.,
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