An inaugural dissertation on the functions of the uterus : submitted to the public examination of the trustees and professors of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the University of the State of New-York, Samuel Bard, M.D. president, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the 6th day of May, 1816 / by Benjamin P. Kissam, surgeon in the United States Navy ; licentiate in medicine and surgery of the Medical Society of New York ; and honorary member of the American Aesculpian Society.

  • Benjamin P. Kissam
Date:
1816
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the functions of the uterus : submitted to the public examination of the trustees and professors of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the University of the State of New-York, Samuel Bard, M.D. president, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the 6th day of May, 1816 / by Benjamin P. Kissam, surgeon in the United States Navy ; licentiate in medicine and surgery of the Medical Society of New York ; and honorary member of the American Aesculpian Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

    51/68
    his successes and miscarriages in this world, de- pend upon their motions and activity, and the different tracts and trains you put them into. Pray, my dear, quoth my mother, have you not forgot to wind up the clock ? Good G— ! cried my father, [making an exclamalion, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time,] did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly ques- tion ? Baudelocque is of opinion, that a union of the semen masculinum with the semen foemine- um is necessary to generation.* Cooper thinks the semen is taken into the general circulation by the absorbents. Cheselden and Cruikshank say it is carried through the fallopian tubes to the uterus; the former says that he dissected a woman who died in coition, and discovered semen in the uterus and fallopian tubes; and the latter, that he exa- mined a rabbit after coition, which had one of the fallopian tubes closed, and found there were no young ones in the ovarium of that side, although there were on the other side, the fallopian tube of which was open. * L'union des principes fournis a la generation par Tun et l'au- tre sexe, et se nomme conception.—Baud, de la Conception.