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fascia is very thin, for the fibres of the obturator internus can 

 be readily seen through it. 



At the bow the fascia divides into two laminae; one pursuing 

 its course to the bladder and rectum, the other covers the lower 

 part of the obturator internus muscle, and thereby constitutes 

 the obturator fascia. The levator ant is interposed between 

 these two laminae. The aponeurosis pelvica also forms a bow 

 or semi-lunar edge in front of flie sacral nerves. The triangu- 

 lar ligament and this fascia are so identified in forming the 

 capsule of the prostate, that the latter, in description, may be 

 referred either to the one or the other, or to both, according to 

 the fancy of the describer. 



CHAPTER II. 



OF THE ORGANS OF GENERATION IN THE FEMALE. 







THE Copulative Organs in the female are, the Vulva and the 

 Vagina; the Generative are the Uterus and the Ovaria. 



SECT. 1. OF THE VULVA. 



The term Vulva is applied to the most superficial of the co- 

 pulative organs, and consists .in the Mons Veneris, the Labia 

 Externa, the Labia Interna, the Clitoris, the Vestibulum, the 

 Orificium Urethras, the Fourchette, and the Fossa Navicularis. 



The Mons Veneris is the protuberance on the fore part of the 

 pubes. Its size varies considerably, according to the state of 

 obesity of the subject, in consequence of its being formed by a 

 deposite of fat between the skin and the bone: in corpulent 

 women it is very large and prominent, whereas, in such as are 

 much emaciated, it simply describes the outline of the bones. 

 The skin, there, is abundantly furnished with sebaceous glands, 

 seated in the cellular texture beneath it, and about the size and 

 shape of millet seed. At the age of puberty a growth of hair 

 takes place upon it, which is not so long as the correspondent 

 growth upon men, and is not so much disposed to spread itself 

 over the lower part of the abdomen as life advances. In wo- 



