. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. UTERUS — (DEVELOPMENT). 061 form. He rather conceives that a reduction so takes place, that either the contents of the nerve fibre are partly or entirely removed by resorption, so that there remains, according to circumstances, a partly or entirely empty sheath ; or that the contents of the fibre are transformed in the same manner that Giinther and Schon (Henle, Allgemeine Anat. p. 771.) observed in divided nerves; viz. that the contents of the tubules become coagulated, as after death, and are then subject to resorption
. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. UTERUS — (DEVELOPMENT). 061 form. He rather conceives that a reduction so takes place, that either the contents of the nerve fibre are partly or entirely removed by resorption, so that there remains, according to circumstances, a partly or entirely empty sheath ; or that the contents of the fibre are transformed in the same manner that Giinther and Schon (Henle, Allgemeine Anat. p. 771.) observed in divided nerves; viz. that the contents of the tubules become coagulated, as after death, and are then subject to resorption: the fibre appearing then to be perishing, and ribbon-like, and the contents to be disappear- ing. Regarding the human uterus, he thinks it in the highest degree probable, that the nerve fibre is included in the energetic resorp- tion process that affects the puerperal uterus generally; that a reduction of the fibre fol- lows; and that, in the next pregnancy, it again becomes developed part passu with the development of the other tissues. /. The uterus after the menstrual epoch, and in old age. Whether the uterus has been employed, in its ultimate office, in the pro- cess of reproduction, viz. that of gestation, or whether it has proceeded only so far towards this as to have been limited to the repetition, in unvarying succession, of that preparatory stage which is expressed by the minor func- tion of menstruation, in either case the period equally arrives at which the activity of the organ passes away. Ova are no longer dis- charged from the ovaries. These cease to be creative or developing organs ; and with this cessation of the proper function of the ovary, there comes also a corresponding diminution, and finally a termination of the correlative offices of the uterus. It is now interesting to observe how the uterus gradually resumes some of the pecu- liar features which it exhibited at an earlier period of life. It may be said to fall back again into its infantine condit
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