Dr. Conquest's outlines of midwifery : intended as a text-book for students, and a book of reference for junior practitioners.

  • Conquest, Dr.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Dr. Conquest's outlines of midwifery : intended as a text-book for students, and a book of reference for junior practitioners. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sitions of the internal organs of generation.— J. M. W.] The ligamenta rotunda, or round ligaments, are about the size of a goose-quill, and arise from the superior angles of the fundus uteri, and, proceeding obliquely downwards and outwards, pass out through the ring of the external oblique muscle, to be inserted about the mons veneris and contiguous parts. The tub(2 FallopiancB derive their name from Fal- lopius, who first clearly demonstrated them. They are two muscular tubes, of about three inches in length, proceeding from the superior angles of the uterus. They run across the pelvis, become larger and more serpentine in their course, and terminate as an expanded opening, with fringed edges, termed fimhricB ; these extremities float loosely in the pelvis, not being included in the ligamenta lata. The inner covering of these tubes is a plicated continuation of the highly vascular lining membrane of the uterus. The fallopian tubes are the media of communication between the uterus and ovaria. The ovaria are two flattened oblong bodies, situ- ated a little below the tubes, and about an inch and a half from the uterus. They consist of a close and compact texture, principally composed of a number of highly vascular vesicles, united by cellular struc- ture. These vesicles, the office of which was first described by De Graaf, are consequently called ve- sicul(B Graafianai. They are probably so many ova, charged with the rudimental matter of future children. * D