Porneiopathology : a popular treatise on venereal and other diseases of the male and female genital system : with remarks on impotence, onanism, sterility, piles, and gravel, and prescriptions for their treatment . ge, fluor albus, &c.; and it is also sub-ject to ulcerations and other diseases. From the clitorisis suspended an inner fold, like a graceful mantle, callednymphce, which are also extremely sensitive, and appear toserve, as they surround the urethra, also for the purposeof directing the flow of urine. Under the opening of theurethra, adherent to the external margins of the vagina, i
Porneiopathology : a popular treatise on venereal and other diseases of the male and female genital system : with remarks on impotence, onanism, sterility, piles, and gravel, and prescriptions for their treatment . ge, fluor albus, &c.; and it is also sub-ject to ulcerations and other diseases. From the clitorisis suspended an inner fold, like a graceful mantle, callednymphce, which are also extremely sensitive, and appear toserve, as they surround the urethra, also for the purposeof directing the flow of urine. Under the opening of theurethra, adherent to the external margins of the vagina, isa membranous veil, or curtain, with a small central aper-ture, called the hymen, the presence of which i3 looked up-on as a test of virginity. After the laceration or dilatationof this membrane, which takes place through other causesthan sexual intercourse, the sides of it contract, and form ON VENEREAL DISEASES. 137 little wing-like slips, to which the fanciful name of carun-cul<e myrtiformcs is applied. The subjoined diagram will familiarize the reader withthe situations of the female organs thus far given. Itexhibits a sectional view of the contents of the pelvis, orlower part of the abdomen :—. 1. The bladder. 2. The urethra,or entranceto ditto. 3. The vagina. 4. The womb. 5. The ovary. 6. The fimbria,and fallopiantube. 7. The rectum,or lower ex-tremity of thebowel. 8. The hymen Much has been said regarding the presence of the hymenin its entire state. It has been deemed by many to bethere placed as a moral evidence of chastity; but its la-ceration is by no means an infallible test of dishonor. Infemales of feeble or consumptive health, and others of del-icate constitutions generally, the aperture of the hymenmay become dilated from natural causes—from too profusea flow of the menstrual flux, from local debility of the partitself, such as exist in the disease known by the name ofthe whites; and it is sometimes to be traced to the habitof personal and solitary excite
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