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Title: The science and art of midwifery
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Lusk, William Thompson, 1838-1897
Subjects: Obstetrics
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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ions, and in advanced life,they become wrinkled and pendu-lous, from diminution of the adi-pose tissue. The labia majora act as a sortof valve, which closes the orifice ofthe vagina, whence the term vulva—i. e., valva, the folding-door ofthe ancients. When the labia arefull and well rounded, they areapproximated closely together, andform the vulva connivens. Withthe loss of adipose tissue, a gapingof the flaccid labia ensues, andforms the vulva Mans. The labia offer an external andinternal surface. The outer sur-face presents the usual character-istics of tegumentary tissue, andis abundantly supplied with large sebaceous glands. The inner surfaceis in all respects like a mucous membrane, except that it possessessebaceous glands in place of mucous follicles. The subcutaneous tis-sue is composed of connective tissue, rich in elastic elements, and con-taining fatty lobules continuous with the underlying adipose struct-ure. It furnishes support to an abundant venous plexus, to which the
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Fig. 1.—The external parts of generation (inthe virgin). 1, labium majus ; 2, four-chette; 3, the nympha; 4, glans clitori-dis; 5, meatus urethra?; 6. vestibule ; 7,orifiee of vagina ; 8, hymen ; 9, orificeof the glands of Duvcrney ; 10, anal or-ifice. (Sappey.) FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION.scienceamidw00lusk

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