Observations on diseases of the uterus, in which are included remarks on moles, polypi, and prolapsus : with the characteristics ... marks of those diseases which ... are sometimes mistaken for pregnancy / [George Rees].

  • Rees, George, 1776?-1846.
Date:
[between 1800 and 1809?]
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Credit: Observations on diseases of the uterus, in which are included remarks on moles, polypi, and prolapsus : with the characteristics ... marks of those diseases which ... are sometimes mistaken for pregnancy / [George Rees]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fluid has been obferved to exude through them. The glandular ftrudlure likewife anfwers an important purpofe in fecreting a mucus to cloie the entrance after impregnation has been accomplifhed; for it is to be confidered as highly eflential that the entrance to the cavity fiiould be free and unobftriuSed previous to conception, and that it fhould be clofed when that procefs is completed. From the two openings already mentioned as fituated at the fundus of the uterus, com- mence the tubae fallopianae, which are two in number, and extend along the broad ligaments to the edge of the pelvis, where their extremities become jagged and irregular, and are loofely fituated near two bodies called the ovaria; thefe are two w’hitifh oblong fubftances near the fides of the fundus uteri, to which they are fixed by a kind of fhort round ligament*, and inclofed in a duplicature /of / * It was univerfally fiippofed by the ancient writers that the ovaria of the female correfponded in ftrudure and fund ion with the tefticles of the male, a luppofition that