Pathology and treatment of diseases of women.

  • August Martin
Date:
1912
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Credit: Pathology and treatment of diseases of women. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the greater part from the sympathetic System, to a lesser part from the spinal System. The sympathetic fibres run from the ganglion coeliacum down the aorta into the broad plexus uterinus magnus. This divides at the height of the promontorium into the two plexus hypogastrici, which surround the rectum and form laterally at the place where the ureter and the arteria uterina cross, the great ganglion cervicale (Frankenhäuser). Spinal branches of the II (?), III, and IV sacral nerves also enter this ganglion. Nerve trunks branch off from this ganglion cervicale to all sides, especially to the uterus and along the vagina, surrounding these organs in a dense network and penetrating their parenchyma down to the mucosa. This ganglion even distributes branches to the tubes and ova- ries, uniting with branches derived from the spermatic ganglion. Large and small ganglia are everywhere embedded among these nerves. In this way the entire genital apparatus is richly supplied with nerves. The entire female genital canal, from the vulva to the abdominal end of the tubes, is lined with mucous membrane, which differs histologic- ally in the different parts. The labia majora are covered with a hairy epidermis containing sudo- riferous and sebaceous glands. At the junction of the lower and middle third one sees the duct of the glandula vestibularis major (Bartholini). This gland is of an acinous structure, and lined with a single layer of cylindrical epithelium. Its mucous secretion is voided sub cohabitatione Fig. 5.—Normal Vaginal Mucous Membrane. (Author’s preparation Zeiss, Obj. AA, Oc. 4.) and makes the introitus vaginaä siippery. This gland has a Pathologie significanee as the seat of abscesses, eysts, malignant tumors, etc. he small labia, on the other hand, are covered with a mucous mem- brane, such as that which iines the entire vagina and the external sur-
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