An essay, on the symptoms and cure of the virulent gonorrhoea, in females / by Charles Armstrong.

  • Armstrong, Charles, 1750-1815.
Date:
1783
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Credit: An essay, on the symptoms and cure of the virulent gonorrhoea, in females / by Charles Armstrong. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    part extremely fenfible, and, like the penis in the male, is compofed of two cavernous bodies, arifing in like man- ner diftbaiy from the fame bones, and afterwards conjoining together into one body, with the intervention of a feptum, but without including any urethra. Within the labia are placed two cu- taneous appendages, called nymphs, which are of a cellular diftenfible fabric, intermixed with febaceous glands. Thefe produdtions defcending outwards and downwards from the cutis of the clito- fis, form the rima magna. The vagina is a membranous cavity, eafily dilatable, fituated below the ure- thra, and above the redum. It is four or five inches long, and between one and two in breadth J its inner or poUerior extremity furrounds the orifice of the uterus, and is connedled with it. The inner furface of the vagina is formed into