Identifier: womansmedicalcom1880garb (find matches)
Title: The woman's medical companion and guide to health : a practical treatise on the diseases of women and children: with full and definite directions for their treatment, giving the causes, symptoms, and means of prevention or cure, with the latest and most approved methods of treatment adopted by all schools of medicine: their doses and modes of administration carefully prescribed
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Garbit, Frederick J., M. D
Subjects: Women Women Infants Infants Gynecology Infant Care
Publisher: Boston : J.P. Dale & company
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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des of the bottom of the womb (fundus uteri) ; they areabout four inches in length, and as thick as a crow-quill, thepassage through them hardly admitting a bristle. They endin a sort of trumpet-shaped mouth (the pavilion or fim-briated, that is, fringed extremity), which, at certain times,seizes the ovary in its grasp, and receives the ovum, or egg,which then passes along the Fallopian tube to the cavity ofthe womb. THE OVARIES <EGG RECEPTACLES OR OVARIA) Are two fleshy bodies, about the size and shape of a largealmond, which lie half encircled by their respective Fallopiantubes, a little behind and about half an inch away from thebottom of the womb (fundus uteri), one on each side, towhich they are connected by a ligament. Each womb con-tains a number of vesicles, in which the ova, or eggs,are formed, and which, as they become ripe, fall into themouth or pavilion of the Fallopian tube to pass to The Female Organs of Generation, 27 Pavilion, or* _-■_.,«. Mouvh of tfe, Secttanof
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Fig. x.—Pelvic Organs in position. Bladder distended. Womb virgin. 28 Womans Medical Companion. the womb. The Fallopian tubes and ovaries are sometimescalled the appendages to the tuomb. The womb, Fallopian tubes, and ovaries are supportedin their mid-centre position in the^basin or pelvic cavitychiefly by a membrane, the peritoneum, in which theyare enveloped, and which is attached by its outer border tothe soft parts lining the side of the basin (pelvis), andto the other viscera, like a diaphragm. This membraneforms a broad fold on the right and left sides of the womb,and these folds are called the broad ligaments; it forms twonarrower and more cord-like folds behind the womb, whichpass one on each side round the uterine region to the cross-bone, and these are called the utero sacral-ligaments; twoother less distinct and slighter folds pass in front betweenthe womb and the bladder, and are called utero-vesical (orwomb-bladder) ligaments. The bladder, womb, and bowelare thus all ti

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