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Title: The science and art of midwifery
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Lusk, William Thompson, 1838-1897
Subjects: Obstetrics Women Pathology
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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Fio. 24.— Uterus bicornis, double cavity and double vagina, from a girl seventeen years of ape.c, cervical portions united together, presenting the appearance of a single cervix ; d, d, thetwo cornua. (Schroeder.)
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Fin. ir). Uterus cordiformis, double natural size. (Kussmaul.) FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION. 33 depression at the fundus marks the point of union between the ductsof Miiller. Two cornua, or horns, are thus distinguishable upon theexternal surface of the uterus. About the eighth or ninth month theconvex fundus is developed, and the cornua disappear externally, thoughall through life they are traceable upon the inner surface in lateral sec-tions of the uterus (vide Fig. 15, p. 21). Before the differentiation of sex has taken place, the external organsof generation present the following appearances: Two ridges, or folds,surround a central opening (sinus uro-genitalis), which either unite toform the scrotum of the male, or develop into the labia majora in thefemale. Where these folds join together above, there is a small pro-jecting body, or tubercle, destined to become the penis or the clitoris.In either case the lower surface of the tubercle is furnished with agroove. The margins of the

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