go CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
end is narrower again, and blind-as aforefaid. Now, what the vefice feminales arein 
| men to preferve the feed, furch are thefe blind paffages in women: for they. are annex- 
ed to the tefticles by the aforefaid little membranes, through which many little veins 
-pafs, and by which the concoéted feed is carried, and here laid up as ina ftore-houfe, 
- where alfo, by the irradiation of the virtue of the tefticles, it is yet better digefted, 
and madeimore perfect; from whence, in the time of coition, it is by the cornua. binice 
into the cavity of the womb. 
The uterus matrix, or womb, is an organical part, the receptacle both of re feed 
and of the child: and it is fituate in the middle of the hypogaftrium, called pelvis, the 
bafon, by the os /acrum and flank-bones, between the inteftinum rectum and the 
‘bladder. Tks magnitude, even in virgins of big ftature, exceeds not the bignefs of a 
‘walnut: but in women with child it dilates itfelf into fuch a capacity as to contain 
‘thechild: nature made it at firft fmall, that it might embrace the yard, and cherihh 
thefeed, becaufe it is but little in quantity. Its figure is faid to refemble a “pear: 
but the neck thereof refembles an oblong and round pipe or channel. Its connec- 
tion is either by the neck or the bottom: the neck is knit by its own fubftance, -and 
by membranes ; ; but the bottom by peculiar ligaments. On the fore fide the 
‘neck is joined to the vefica and the os pubis, by membranes from the peritoneum;.on 
‘the hind fide, to the os facrum and inteftinum reétum ; but about the vulva it Grows to- 
ether with the anus ; on the fides it is loofely joined by membranes to the peritoneum. 
‘The fundus or bottom is not tied by its fubftance, but is free; but in its fides it is 
faftened by two pair of ligaments, which keep the womb fufpended or hanging loofe. 
‘The upper pair is broad and membranous, which are joined co the os ium, and end 
in the bottom, near the cornua: they are foft and loofe, that they may diftend or con- 
trat; and by Aretens they are likened to the wings of bats: if thefe ligaments or 
mufcles be loofened or broken, by difficult labour or other violence, it may-caufe 
‘the falling down of the womb. The two lower ligaments are red like mufcles, and 
‘round like earth-worms, and pervious to the clitoris, from whence, (like a goofe 
foot,) deftiture altogether of their hollownefs, they {pread themfelves upon the — 
fore part of the thigh. Thee arife from the fides of the bottom. of the womb, 
touching at their beginning the vajfa deferentia x ‘then, afcending to the groins, they 
pefs through the produétions of the peritoneum and the tendons of the oblique de- 
fcendant mufclés of the belly, and are partly obliterated i in the membranesof, he bone 
near the clitoris, where they are joined, degenerating i into a broad nervous. thinnefs, 
imolt like a goofe foot, as aforefaid, and partly run ‘through the inner part of the 
thigh to,the knee: hence it is that women in their firft months going } with « ChE 
Niet of a pain in the ne of their thighs, The fubstance of the womb i is 
ite Alb ‘ I membranous, 
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