AND FAMILY DISPENSATORY, we 
mere ah eet rey 
> impregnated are extended to widen the womb, 
which after exclufion of the child, as alfo in age, are again contraéted.. The mem- 
branes of the womb are two, one common, the other proper.. The common is 
doubled, and grows to the fides on each hand: it arifes from the _peritonzum, and — 
is exceeding thick, firm, ftrong, imooth every where except. where. the fpermatic 
veffels enter or the ligaments go out. The proper and internal membrane is 
alfo'double, between both which there are flefhy fibres, fuch as are found.in the fto- 
mach, with alfo here and there a kind of fpungy fubftance. The womb. has. veins 
and arteries accompanying one another, which are carried between the, tunicles or 
coats thereof, and cait out their blood into its membranous pipes, but not into its 
innermoft cavity : thefe veffels arife both from above. and beneath, viz. fromthe upper 
and lower parts of the body ; for the blood ought to come from the whole. body, 
that the whole may by the monthly termsbe purged, and that, in the time when a 
woman is impregnated, the child might be nourifhed. .Thofe which defcend from 
above run all the womb over, efpecially in the fundus or bottom, being derived from 
the fpermatic veffels, or thofe by which the vafa preparentia are conftituted, as alfo 
from the hemorrhoidal branch, whence is the great confent between the womb and 
the fpleen: the left ends alfo of thé veins and arteries are joined with the right ends, 
that the right fide may be fupplied with plenty of blood. Through the arteries (in 
wonien not with child) the menftrual blood always flows: what is not thus eva- 
cuated, returns back again to the heart by the veins, which are joined to the arte- 
Ties by many anaftomofes. The veins and arteries that come from beneath, which 
are larger than the former, {pring from the ramus hypog aftricus of the cava and aorta, 
and, running through the neck of the womb and lower part of the bottom, are every 
where joined with the fuperior ones by manifold anaftomofes. The mouths of thefe 
veflels enter into the cavity of the fundus, which, i in the time of the flowing of the 
terms, are opened, and gape, and, becaufe they refemble cups or faucers, are called 
acetabula or totylidones : to thefe, when a woman is with child, the placenta is joined, 
which receives the blood for nourifhment thereof. And, becaufe thefe: branches are 
carried tothe neck of the womb, by them women which are with child fometiines 
alfo void their courfes. It is furnifhed with many nerves from the par vagum, and 
the nerves of the Os igetaha, which run to the os uteri and parts about the vulva fot ae 
deleCtation fake, and to the | lower partof the fundus, asalfoto the upperpart| hereof fe. 
where they are interwoven. like anet; hence arifes the great fympathy twe 
womb and the brain. The ufe of t the womb i is to attract, receive, retain 
order | to conception: and after ‘to contain: ‘ial 
and cherifh, the feed, i ino fee 
