Identifier: feminologyguidef00dres (find matches)
Title: Feminology; a guide for womankind, giving in detail instructions as to motherhood, maidenhood, and the nursery
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Dressler, Florence
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Publisher: Chicago, C. L. Dressler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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an automaton, who exists without the power totaste life in its beauty and fineness. Some authorities assert that the ovaries absorb andthrow out of the system, through the menses, those prop-erties which develop bone and coarseness of fiber. Duringpregnancy, when the flow is arrested, these properties areused for the development of the fetus. It is a plausibletheory. The ovaries are two almond-shaped bodies, on eitherside of the uterus, about two and one-half inches distant.Each ovary is about one and a half inches in length, threequarters of an inch in thickness, at the broadest portion,and tapers to a half inch at the ends. The outer extremityis somewhat rounded; and is attached to one of the fimbriaeof the Fallopian tubes (which is about two inches in length,and serves to keep the extremity of the tube within easyreach of the ovary). The inner extremity is more pointed,and is attached to the side of the uterus by means of theligament of the ovary. The ovaries project from the pos-
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n8 FEMINOLOGY. terior surface of the broad ligament about midway betweenthe two extremities of the Fallopian tubes. The propercovering of these bodies is a dense, firm, fibrous coat, whichincloses a soft, fibrous tissue abundantly supplied with bloodvessels. Imbedded in the meshes of the soft tissue, andmaking up the main substance of the ovary, are numeroustiny, transparent vesicles, or bladders (so small as to re-quire the aid of the microscope to see them). The nameapplied is the Graafian vesicle, after their discoverer, DeGraaf. They are sacs filled with a serous fluid, in whicha single ovum, or egg, is situated. The matured vesiclesare found near the surface of the ovary, ready to burstthrough, like a plant through the ground. The escape ofthe ovum takes place through an opening in the coat andthe bursting of the vesicle containing it. A tiny yellowspot or point is left upon the ovary, which, after a time,disappears. The human egg is exceedingly minute, requiring fromone hundred

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