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stridor muscles of the pharynx, all tend outwards, and converge 

 towards the four principal points mentioned by Madame Boivin; 

 3. More deeply seated, are found other transverse fibres; but the 

 longitudinal and oblique fibres predominate, especially at the neck, 

 where they constitute the basis of the ridges observed on the inner 

 surface of the organ; lastly, above is seen the pretended detrusor 

 placentse of Ruysch, which seems to be nothing more than an ex- 

 pansion of the circular fibres of the Fallopian tubes. 



The basis of all these strata is the yellow cehulo-fibrous tissue, 

 surcharged with fibrine; the fleshy tissue developes itself in this pri- 

 mitive web as in the intestines; but inasmuch as the womb seems to 

 be composed by the union of two cylindrical canals, and as it is 

 necessary that it should be endowed with great strength, it is not as- 

 tonishing that its multiplied fibres should aflect the most complex 

 and varied directions. 



173. d. Blood-vessels. Two orders of arteries are appropriated 

 to the gestative organs: one, known as the uterine arteries, furnish- 

 ed by the hypogastrics, penetrate into the substance of the womb at 

 the cervix; the others, the ovarian, given oflf by the aorta or the 

 emulgents, pass along in the broad ligaments, and after being pardy 

 distributed in the ovaries, proceed to the sides of the body of the 

 womb itself. In ramifying, those of the left side inosculate with 

 those of the right, those from above with those from below, and as 

 all of them are strongly compressed in the substance of the tissue in 

 which they creep, they are doubled and redoubled a great many 

 times. The veins, distributed in the same manner as the arteries, 

 go to the internal iliac vein from one part, and to the ovarian veins 

 from the other. During pregnancy, these various canals, partially 

 unfokled and largely dilated, run chiefly between the two fleshy strata 

 so much insisted upon by A. Leroy. 



173. e. Its lymphatic vessels pass into the pelvic and iliac gang- 

 lions; its nerves came from the sacral plexus, and from the gangli- 

 onic system by the renal and hypogastric plexuses. The former 

 are distributed almost exclusively upon the cervix, and it is natural 

 to attribute to them the excessive sensibility enjoyed by this part; 

 while the latter, being here destined to furnish only the vegetative 

 sensibility, must be more regularly distributed to all parts of the 

 womb. 



§. 11. Fallopian Tubes {ticbse Fallopianx). 



174. The uterine tubes, or Fallopian tubes, (seminiferous ducts,) 

 are two small, hollow cylinders, four or five inches long, as large 

 as the barrel of a quill, and extending from the lateral angles of the 



