A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . g the natural andaseptic lubricant of the vagina, even if it does not, throughcarelessness of preparation or administration, introduce infectionwhere none had existed previously. The internal organs of generation (Figs. 9 and 10) consist ofthe uterus, the Fallopian tubes, and the ovaries. The uterus, or womb (Fig. 11), is a hollow, pear-shapedorgan about three inches in length in the non-pregnant is composed of muscular tissue, covered externally almostwholly with peritoneum and internally with mucous membrane,and is susp
A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . g the natural andaseptic lubricant of the vagina, even if it does not, throughcarelessness of preparation or administration, introduce infectionwhere none had existed previously. The internal organs of generation (Figs. 9 and 10) consist ofthe uterus, the Fallopian tubes, and the ovaries. The uterus, or womb (Fig. 11), is a hollow, pear-shapedorgan about three inches in length in the non-pregnant is composed of muscular tissue, covered externally almostwholly with peritoneum and internally with mucous membrane,and is suspended in the pelvis by means of a number of ligaments 30 A NURSES HANDBOOK OF OBSTETRICS. arranged in pairs and stretching across from the uterus to thesides of the pelvis or to other pelvic organs. This arrangementof the ligaments is such that the uterus is allowed considerablefreedom of motion, and its position varies slightly with respira-tion, with the posture of the woman, and with the condition ofthe bowels and bladder. In other words, the uterus has no. Fig. 9.—Internal organs of generation. (Keating and Coe.) Showing the uterus in itsnormal position between the bladder and the rectum. The vagina lies between the lowerborder of the bladder and the meatus urinarius above and the rectum and anus below,separated from the latter by the perineum. intimate attachment to any fixed point, but hangs in the pelvisin a way to permit of its enormous enlargement during preg-nancy,—from about the size of an egg before conception hasoccurred to that of a fairly large pumpkin at the time of uterus lies in about the centre of the pelvis, below the brim,with the bladder in front and the rectum behind, so that, of THE FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION. 31
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