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 . a—The bony portion of the pel-vis separated from its junc-tion with its companion. b—The spinal column of theback. c—The bladder d—The orifice of the urethra,e—The body of the —The neck of the — The vagina. A—The rectum, or end of the intestines. ON VENEREAL DISEASES. 139 The subjoined drawing illustrates the shape and appear-ance of the womb detached from the body:—. To
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 . a—The bony portion of the pel-vis separated from its junc-tion with its companion. b—The spinal column of theback. c—The bladder d—The orifice of the urethra,e—The body of the —The neck of the — The vagina. A—The rectum, or end of the intestines. ON VENEREAL DISEASES. 139 The subjoined drawing illustrates the shape and appear-ance of the womb detached from the body:—. To particularize : The upper part is called the fundus ;the widest part, the body ; the neck, the narrow part; andthe lower portion the mouth, or the os tincce. The con-nexion of the fallopian tubes is well shown. The uterus, or womb, is described by physiologists asbeing of a spongy structure—a structure that yields withits enlargement—that, grows with its growth—that re-sumes the former size when disburdened of its is supplied with blood-vessels, is duly supported, hasscarcely a cavity when unimpregnated, bnt is ever in astate of preparation for changes. Of conception we shallpresently treat. There is one function too important to omit in thisplace, and this is menstruation—a term indicating amonthly periodical discharge that escapes, or which isgiven off, from the womb. At the commencement of thisfunction, woman is said to have arrived at puberty; butthere are cases of precocity, and others wherein it neveroccurs, that neutralize this assertion; besides, menstru
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