. The anatomy and physiology of the human body. Containing the anatomy of the bones, muscles, and joints; and the heart and arteries . so as to permit the flow ofurine, or the introduction of the catheter. A case occurred to Mr. John Bell, in which the tumour ofthe womb compressed the neck of the bladder. A catheterwas passed, and gave instant relief. The midwife, after sometime, came, and said, that the catheter would not pass. Hefound that he could pass the catheter into the bladder, but nourine flowed ; and it was discovered, that the tumour, increas-ing backward, came to press upon the ure
. The anatomy and physiology of the human body. Containing the anatomy of the bones, muscles, and joints; and the heart and arteries . so as to permit the flow ofurine, or the introduction of the catheter. A case occurred to Mr. John Bell, in which the tumour ofthe womb compressed the neck of the bladder. A catheterwas passed, and gave instant relief. The midwife, after sometime, came, and said, that the catheter would not pass. Hefound that he could pass the catheter into the bladder, but nourine flowed ; and it was discovered, that the tumour, increas-ing backward, came to press upon the ureters, so as com-pletely to obstruct them where they enter the bladder. Thewoman unavoidably died ; each kidney and ureter was foundto contain four or five ounces of urine. A slight sketch of the parts in the female pelvis will, per-haps, better explain the connections of the neck of the blad-der than any description, and will certainly better illustrate thecause of some kinds of obstruction, particularly that arisingfrom the change in the posture of the womb. THE EXTERNAL PARTS OF GENERATION. 313 First Plan of the Female A, the OS pubis cut through; B, the spine and sacrum alsocut directly down; C, the urinary bladder moderately dis-tended, and rising behind the pqies; D, the urethra, veryshort, and taking a gentle curve ander the symphypls of the ospubis; E, the fundus of the w^mb; F, the os tiricae, or orificeto the womb; G, the vaginx; H, the rectum- Prolapsus, or falling down of the womi, is frequent withthose who have borne many children. By this slipping downof the body of the womb F, into the vagina G, it presses onthe neck of the bladder, or urethr?- This is also apt to hap-pen in the first months of pregna^^J, from a degree of difficultywhich the womb in its enla-bement has m rising above thebrim of the pelvis. ^ , We may observe ?^-^ irom the place ot the vagina G, thatits diseases its •? ^rrhous hardening, its distention by themenses willalf ^onipress the
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