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Title: The science of eugenics and sex life, the regeneration of the human race ..
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hadden, Walter J Robinson, Charles H Melendy, Mary Ries, 1842- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Eugenics Marriage Beauty, Personal Women
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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e the grand center of female econ-omy. All the organisms and functions of the woman are more or lessin sympathy with these,and from the full, healthyand harmonious develop-ment of the sexual systemcome the ruddy cheek, theelastic step, the buoyant,womanly spirit, and thatconstancy and affectionwhich so pre-eminentlycharacterize, beautify andennoble the female sex.Formerly the uterus wasthought to be the most im-portant of the reproduc-tive organs, but it is nowknown to be but the laterreceptacle for the egg, orovum, which is first pro-duced in the ovaries andconveyed by the Fallopiantubes into the uterus,where, if conception takesplace, it remains and de-velops into a new being;otherwise, after a short stay, it passes off. The uterus is be-tween the bladder and the rectum, above and continuous withthe vagina, and is supported partly by eight strong ligaments,and partly by the tension of the vaginal muscles beneath it,which serve as pillars. In form, the uterus is much like a flattened
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ARTERIES OF THE UTERUS. The uterus is about the relative size found six daysafter labor. It is represented turned forward, exhibit-ing its posterior face. Besides the principal arteries the cut shows the kid-neys, the aorta, the ovaries and the Fallopian tubes. 278 THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS. pear, with the broad part upward. It is from two and a half to threeinches in length; nearly two in breadth at the top, and an inch or lessat the cervix or neck, which is the lower part. In thickness, also, it is about one inch. Itsinternal cavity isvery small comparedwith the size of theorgan; this is owingto the extreme thick-ness of its muscularwalls, so built as toaccommodate thegrowing size of thefetus. This cavity inthe upper part, orbody of the womb, istriangular, with theFallopian tubesopening from its up-per angles. In thelower part, or neckof the womb, the cav-ity becomes morelong than broad,swelling somewhat atthe middle, and ter-minating by what iscalled the os uteri,or mouth of thewomb,

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