The practice of medicine and surgery : applied to the diseases and accidents incident to women / by W. H. Byford ... and Henry T. Byford.

Byford, William Heath, 1817-1890.

Date:: 1888

Credit: The practice of medicine and surgery : applied to the diseases and accidents incident to women / by W. H. Byford ... and Henry T. Byford. 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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$small quantities everywhere under the peritoneum ; in larger quanti- ties between the bladder and the symphysis in the median line, along the vesico-vaginal septum, between the bladder and uterus, and be- tween the layers of the broad ligaments; while under the sacro-uterine Fir 9 conta. ininq TcCt f^^ ( ^ R&cttcni Uteri ,^ iTreiex' %. S2adder \ PlLbis Horizontal Section of Pelvis through the Second Sacral Vertebra and Pubis (W. A. Freund). and broad ligaments on either side it is so abundant as to form a large connective-tissue chamber (Figs. 7, 8, 9). These chambers are bounded above by the reflected peritoneal folds of the broad ligaments over the para-vesical and sacral pouches, below by the levatores ani and coccygei muscles, internally by the rectum, vagina, cervix and base of the bladder, posteriorly by the sacrum, an- teriorly by the pubes and superior attachments of the levator ani, and$