The philosophy of marriage : being four important lectures on the functions and disorders of the nervous system, and reproductive organs, illustrated with cases / by L.J. Jordan.

  • Jordan, Henry J.
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[1865]
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    portions, but it was not until recently that that division has been recognized by Anatomists and Physiologists as distinct in character, function, and in the distribution of nerves. These two portions are-first, the lower portion of the pear- shaped form, containing the ccrri.r uteri, or pas- sage from the mouth upwards; and the upper and larger portion, containing the cavity of the womb. Bearing in mind the pear-shaped figure, the internal configuration of the uterus will be most easily understood by imagining that in the broad part of a pear just above the seed vessels of its core, there is a cavity which, if the pear were cut in two, would present an inverted tri- angular form; the base of the triangle towards the broad end of the pear, the point or apex, towards the stem; at this point there is an open- ing into a canal proceeding to, and terminating at the part where the stem is inserted. This canal is the cervix uteri, small in diameter at the end next the stalk, then immediately enlarging for a short distance, and thence gradually dim- inishing as it approaches the entrance to the triangular cavity in the upper part of the pear, at which point it is smallest in diameter. Ex- cept perhaps at the period of menstruation, no instrument whatever can be passed through the the cervix uteri into the triangular cavity of the uterus without injury to the lining mem- brane ; an extremely small probe would seriously puncture and lacerate the membrane, whilst one sufficiently large to avoid puncturation prnoo only be introduced by great force. From the triangular cavity at the upper part of the womb, we find, on examination, that from