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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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Fig. 23.—Uterus unicornis from a young child, posterior aspect (Pole), a, uterus unicornis,left half of uterus undeveloped ; £>, right Fallopian tube ; c, left Fallopian tube, excep-tionally present; d, d, ovaries ; e, bladder. (Courty.) the first rudiments of the uterus and vagina. The free portions ofthe filaments become the Fallopian tubes. Both uterus and vaginaare at first divided into two parts by a common partition-wall, whichdisappears subsequently from below upward. FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION. 31 The uterus, at the fourth month of fetal life, presents distincttraces of the early origin from the ducts of Miiller. The fundus isundeveloped. The ridges of the arbor vitse uterina, which are confinedat a later period to the cervix, extend the entire length of the uterus.
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Fig. 24.—Double uterus arid vagina from a girl aged nineteen (Eisenmann). a, doublevaginal orifice with double hymen ; b, meatus urethra ; ?, clitoris; d, urethra; e, <?, thedouble vagina;/,/, uterine orifices; g, (j, cervical portions; A, h, bodies and cornua;*, *, ovaries; k, k, Fallopian tubes; if, 2, round ligaments ; m, m, broad ligaments.(Courty.) A depression at the fundus marks the point of union between theducts of Miiller. Two cornua, or horns, are thus distinguishable uponthe external surface of the uterus. About the eighth or ninth monththe convex fundus is developed, and the cornua disappear externally,though all through life they are traceable upon the inner surface inlateral sections of the uterus (vide Fig. 15, p. 21). Before the differentiation of sex has taken place, the externalorgans of generation present the following appearances : Two ridges, 32 PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY.

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