The principles and practice of midwifery / completed and corrected by James Sims.

  • Foster, Edward, -1780.
Date:
1781
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Credit: The principles and practice of midwifery / completed and corrected by James Sims. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    alfo more fcft, fpongy, and tender, whilft its tliicknefs remains very much the fame; though from the diftenfion of its veffels, this perhaps Is rather increafed than dimi- nifhed, and that unequally, as the veffels happen to be enlarged at this or that part, but more efpecially v/here the placenta adheres. The os tincx is found perfedly clofed, and as it were moft accurately feal- ed by a thick vifcid gluten, which confti- tutes however no difference to the touch (CCXC). CLV. The ligaments alfo differ in the ■gravid from the unimpregnated womb. i. The broad ligaments, being almoft obli- terated, come off from the fides of the womb at the collum, inflead of the fun- y^js.-—A^^ 2. The velTels of the round li- gaments, becoming much larger, rundown along the fore part of the womb, and come off at the collum alfo, inftead of the fun- dus. CLVL The Fallopian tubes, inftead of coming off at right angles from the fundus uteri, are confined clofe to the womb, until they defcend to the collum, where