. A system of midwifery, including the diseases of pregnancy and the puerperal state. assume, according to the degree of themalformation, a type which is lower or higher in the animal scale. The marsupial type/ says Owen, is repeated in one of the rareranomalies of the female organs in the human species. This, indeed,is an anomaly so rare and peculiar, that it has only been observed ascoexistent with other malformations,—such as fissure of the abdomi-nal and pelvic walls; but what is more frequently met with is the form 1 Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology. Art. Uterus. 1859. 74 FEMALE ORGA
. A system of midwifery, including the diseases of pregnancy and the puerperal state. assume, according to the degree of themalformation, a type which is lower or higher in the animal scale. The marsupial type/ says Owen, is repeated in one of the rareranomalies of the female organs in the human species. This, indeed,is an anomaly so rare and peculiar, that it has only been observed ascoexistent with other malformations,—such as fissure of the abdomi-nal and pelvic walls; but what is more frequently met with is the form 1 Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology. Art. Uterus. 1859. 74 FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION. [CHAP, shown in Fig. 36, where the two uterine halves meet, and are unitedby a commissure of true uterine tissue, which represents the fundusuteri. The higher this commissure reaches, the more does the wombapproach to the normal type. In the figure there are two vagi me, twoorifices, and two uterine cavities. In the case shown in Fig. 37, there is but one vagina. The os alsois single, as is the cavity of the cervix, the bifurcation commencing Fig. 36. Fig. Double vagina and uterus. (After Busch.) Bifid uterus. about the os internum. The angle at which the cornua unite varies indifferent cases—which is accounted for, as is pointed out by Rokitansky,by the height at which the uniting commissure is situated. Group 4. In this, the external form of the uterus differs but littlefrom the normal character. The breadth of the organ is greater, es-pecially at the fundus, where a depression in the middle line indicatesthe situation internally of a vertical septum, which more or less com-pletely divides the uterine cavity into two halves, and constitutes theuterus biloGularis. The extent of this septum may vary from a mereridge to a complete partition, which may even invade the vagina. These several deviations from the normal form of the uterus willinfluence more or less the function of the organ. Menstruation may,it is true, in a large proportion of cases, be sc
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