Transactions of the State Medical Society of Kansas (Volume 1)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884. Excerpt: ... short time, as it is both my habit and inclination to deal with the plain facts, rather than lose myself in the mythical realms of abstruse science. The external organs of generation in the female are the mons veneris, the labia majora and minora, the clitoris, the meatus urlnarius, and the orifice of the vagina--the term vulva, or pudendum, includes all the parts. The vagina is a membranous canal extending from the vulva to the uterus; it is situated in the pelvis behind the bladder, and in front of the rectum; it is cylindrical in shape, flattened from before backwards, and its walls are ordinarily in contact with one another; its length is about feur inches along its anterior, and between five and six along its posterior walls; it surrounds the vaginal portion of the cervix uteri at some distance from the os, and its attachment extend higher up on the posterior than on the anterior wall; structure, three coats external, or muscular, a layer of erectile tissue, and an internal. The uterus, in the virgin state, is pear shaped, flattened from before backwards, and situated in the cavity of the pelvis between the bladder and the rectum. It is retained in position by the rouad and broad ligaments on each side, and projects into the upper end of the vagina, below its upper end or base, is directed upwards and forwards, its lower end or apex dowu wards and baekwards in the line of the axis of the inlet of the pelvis, and forming an angel with the vagina, the direction of which corresponds to the cavity and outlet of the pelvis. Its size, three inches in length, two in breadth at its upper part, and one inch in thickness. It weighs, at puberty, from seven to twelve drachms. After parturition, from one and a half to two ounces. It is divided into fundus, body, ...