A theoretical and practical treatise on midwifery : including the diseases of pregnancy and parturition and the attentions required by the child from birth to the period of weaning . ive tothis rupture, in the interesting treatise published by him (De la Ponte periodiquechez les Femmes et les Mamml/eres, 1844); and as his opinions are not as yetvery widely disseminated, it may prove useful to publish them in this work. If the ovaries be examined eight, ten, or twelve days after the cessation ofthe menstrual discharge, a small, rounded tumefaction, surmounted by a red spotlike an ecchymosis, an
A theoretical and practical treatise on midwifery : including the diseases of pregnancy and parturition and the attentions required by the child from birth to the period of weaning . ive tothis rupture, in the interesting treatise published by him (De la Ponte periodiquechez les Femmes et les Mamml/eres, 1844); and as his opinions are not as yetvery widely disseminated, it may prove useful to publish them in this work. If the ovaries be examined eight, ten, or twelve days after the cessation ofthe menstrual discharge, a small, rounded tumefaction, surmounted by a red spotlike an ecchymosis, and presenting in its centre a slight linear fissure, will befound on the surface of one of these organs. The margins of the fissure areagglutinated, even this early, in the majority of cases; but it is still easy to sepa-rate them by using lateral tractions. If the ovary be then opened at the ecchy-mosed spot, the interior will exhibit a pouch, already smaller than the cavity ofthe vesicle before the rupture, but entirely filled by a clot of blood, which, whenplaced in alcohol, has the consistence of a solid body, though somewhat spongy 92 FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION. Fig. in its nature. The clot is usually about the size of a medium cherry (see ), and may be raised from its cavity without difficulty. The parietes of thevesicle exhibit, at this period, a yellowish hue, that disappears in spirits of surface of the internal membrane is at once slightly plaited and downy; theplaiting being produced after the rupture of the vesicle, by the -rapid contractionof the highly elastic external membrane, thus throwing the internal one, which is devoid of such elasticity, into folds. The re-traction is arrested by the resistance of the clot,then the folds, that existed on the internal mem-brane, disappear in consequence of the reciprocaladherence, and the cavity diminishes. In themean while, the most soluble molecules of the clotare absorbed, and then a further retractio
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