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Title: Feminology; a guide for womankind, giving in detail instructions as to motherhood, maidenhood, and the nursery
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Dressler, Florence
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Publisher: Chicago, C. L. Dressler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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st sexual congress. Thisgave rise to the theory that its presence must indicate vir-ginity ; but it is not now so regarded. It may be destroyedby accident or disease, or may be entirely wanting in someyoung women. Again, it may be so firm as not to yieldat the first or subsequent connections, and to grow againin widows, or in wives absent from their husbands forsome time. The uterus is the organ of gestation. It lies entirelywithin the pelvis in the unimpregnated state, and is sus-tained by eight ligaments partly, and by the tension of thevaginal muscles, which serve as do the pillars that supporta roof, or pavilion. The position is between the bladder 112 FEMINOLOGY. and rectum, above the vagina, and the ovaries laterallyconnected. In shape and size, the uterus resembles a flat-tened pear, the broad part upward. It does not attain fullsize until puberty; but after that the size is unchangedthrough life, in the barren woman or virgin. The average womb is three inches in length, two in
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The Uterus. breadth, at the point of entrance of the Fallopian tubes;at the neck the diameter is about one inch. The internalcavity is very small compared to the bulk, owing to thethickness of the muscular walls, which is necessary thatthe organ may accommodate itself to the growing fetus.Above the Fallopian tubes that part of the womb is calledthe fundus; the lower contracted portion is the neck, orcervix; the principal part of the organ is called the body, REPRODUCTIVE PHYSIOLOGY. 113 and is the part which expands most during fetal growth.The cervix projects partly into the vagina, and forms theexternal opening of the uterine cavity. On discoveringthis projection, women have been known to consult theirphysician for treatment of what was thought to be a tumor. The ligaments supporting the uterus are very strongand very elastic, accommodating themselves to the variousmovements of the body, as walking, bending, jumping,crouching, etc. The weight of the organs above the wombis to be wit

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