The article Uterus and its appendages from the Cyclopaedia of anatomy and physiology : comprising the normal and abnormal anatomy, physiology and development of the uterus, ovary, parovarium, Fallopian tube, vagina, vulva and placenta / by Arthur Farre.

  • Farre, Arthur, 1811-1887.
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[1858]
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Credit: The article Uterus and its appendages from the Cyclopaedia of anatomy and physiology : comprising the normal and abnormal anatomy, physiology and development of the uterus, ovary, parovarium, Fallopian tube, vagina, vulva and placenta / by Arthur Farre. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    UTERUS AND ITS APPEN8IGES FROM THE COMBBISING THE NORMAL AND ABNORMAL ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE UTERUS, OVARY, PAROVARIUM, FALLOPIAN TUBE, VAGINA, VULVA AND PLACENTA. BY ARTHUU EAUEE, M.D. Cantab., F.R.S. PHOFESSOE OF OBSTETRTC MEDICINE IN KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON. PHTSIOIAN-ACCODCnEUE AND PHTSTCIAN FOB DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN king's COLLEGE HOSPITAL. Author's Copy for private distribution. UTERUS AND ITS APPENDAGES. —The reproductive organs in woman consist of the Ovaries, Fallopian Tubes or Oviducts. Uterus, Vagina, and Vulva. These are com- monly subdividcil into the formative and ro2m- lalivc organs. To the first division belong the ovaries, Fallopian tubes, and uterus ; to the second the vulva; while the vagina, on ac- count of its offices in copulation and in labour, may be regarded as common to both. This division nearly corresponds with an- other and more artificial arrangement, by which these parts are subdiviiled into the internal and external generative organs ; those being regarded as internal which are protected within the body and concealed from view, Supp. while those which can be easily seen are termed external: the line of demarcation being here at the entrance to the vagina. Of the several organs just enumerated, the uterus has doubtless, on many accounts, prior claim to attention. It is the' largest of these parts. It is that which contributes the greatest amount of material to the new organism which it contains and i)rotects. It is that part in which alone a direct connection of attachment subsists between the fruit and the parent. Its functions, so far as they con- tribute to each individual act of reproduction, are exercised for much longer periods of time than those of any other portion of tiie gene- rative apparatus. It exerts a powcrfid reflex