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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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y upon this point, In the examination of young nullipa-rous prostitutes, who enter the Bellevue Hospital for uterine disor-ders, I have always found a torn hymen, but, in no case, caruncuhvmyrtiformes. With the destruction of the hymen the orificium vaginm is boundedby the labia minora and the vestibule. * Vide Bunnr, Becherches sui ITiymen et Iorifice vaginale, Publication daprogrrcs medicate, 1879. + IIyktl, Handbuch der topographischen Anatomie, Wien, 5te Auflage, Bd. ii,p. 162. X Schroeder, Schwangerschaft, Geburt, and Wochenbett, Bonn, 1^(37. p. 6. - PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY. The Vagina.—The vagina is a membranous canal, connecting theuterus with the external parts of generation. It runs in an obliquedirection forward from its attachment at the cervix to its orifice at thevulva. When not artificially dilated, its anterior and posterior wallsare in contact with each other. The length of the vagina, owing to itsextraordinary distensibility, is usually greatly over-estimated. Adinit-
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ii<; 5 —Section through the female pelvis (diagrammatic), l. rectum ; 8, uterus j :\. excavatlorecto-uterlna (cul-de-sac f Douglas); I. excavatlo vesico-uterina ; 5, bladder; 6, clitoris ; 7, urethra ; 8. symphysis ; 9, spliiueter aui ; 10, vagina j 11. OODneCtive tissue layer, (Kohl- rausch modified by Splegelberg.) ting considerable variations, dependent upon weight, position, etc., of the uterus, two and a half inches for the anterior, and a little over three inches for the posterior wall may be accepted as fair averagemeasurements.41 The vagina is placed between the rectum and blad-der, and is more or less intimately connected with both those organs.In its upper fifth, the vagina is separated from the rectum by the cuU* Luschka, Die Anatomic dea menschlichen Beokens, Tubingen, 1804, p. 383. PLATE I.

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