Diseases of women and abdominal surgery . f same. INTRODUCTORY. Anatomy of the Abdominal and Iklvk; Okoans. I should have been little disposed to enter iijioii this sulijcctwere I not satisfied that great niisrepresentatif)n of the relati( the abdominal and pelvic organs exists in the ordinary textbooks of anatoniy. The dissecting room method is very usefulin enabling the student to use his fingers, and to lucome ianiiliarwith the appearance of dead tissues. Jiut it is a nuist misleadingmethod so far as conveying any impression of the mutualrelations of structures and organs. To olitain
Diseases of women and abdominal surgery . f same. INTRODUCTORY. Anatomy of the Abdominal and Iklvk; Okoans. I should have been little disposed to enter iijioii this sulijcctwere I not satisfied that great niisrepresentatif)n of the relati( the abdominal and pelvic organs exists in the ordinary textbooks of anatoniy. The dissecting room method is very usefulin enabling the student to use his fingers, and to lucome ianiiliarwith the appearance of dead tissues. Jiut it is a nuist misleadingmethod so far as conveying any impression of the mutualrelations of structures and organs. To olitain a clear idea of the relations of the abdominal and ])elvic organsthe only trustworthy method is the study of frozen sections ofthe cadaver. If the physicians who write theoretical papers on the positionsof the uterus, its flexions and versions, would study these sectionsthey would soon be persuaded that the uterus varies its positionsgreatly according to the state of the rectum, and to the stages ofdevelopment. (See Fig. 1.). Fig. 1.—Median section of frozen pelvis of new-born child. Note that the vagina is relativelyveiy large, and that the cervical part of uterus is quite half of the organ The organ has itsnormal (infantile) position of niai-K-Hd anteveision. (Section made by Prof. Cunningham, F. , and drawn for me by Mi. R. Maniiix, Dublin } 2 INTKODUCTOKY. The exact facts of the method of closure of the vagina and ofthe distended rectum with the real relations of the peritoneumwere first displayed to nij astonished gaze some years ago in asection (Fig. 2) shown to me by my friend Professor Cunningham,of Dublin ; and I have since verified them repeatedly.
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