Volume 2

An extraordinary case of lacerated vagina, at the full period of gestation. With observations tending to show that many cases related as ruptures of the uterus, have been lacerations of the vagina / [William Goldson].

  • Goldson, William
Date:
1787
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An extraordinary case of lacerated vagina, at the full period of gestation. With observations tending to show that many cases related as ruptures of the uterus, have been lacerations of the vagina / [William Goldson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    v C 26 ] Bartholinus gives the name of ‘ Col- lurn breve minus/ to that part which is now called the cervix ; Angufta infe¬ rior eft inter os uteri et amplitudinem incipientem, atque collum breve vocari poteft, ad differential!! veri et longioris colli/ which he terms * Coiium ipftim, cervix, five canalis uteri'*; Deventer exprefsly takes notice of the.confufion which attended this divi- non of preceding writers : c Nomen ta~ men vaginae prefero nomini colli, quia fepius autores, eodem utentes, vaginam ab ipfo utero, aegre diftinguere poft funtf/ * Bartkolini Anatom, i. 30. f Deventer nov. Lum. obftetr. p. 25. CASE I.