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mann, Callisen, Boehmer, Tiedemann, MM. Lallemant, Dupuytren, 

 Dumeril, Dubois, West, Cassan, Recamier, Gamier and Ollivier 

 D' Angers, and in a case that I saw in a womb, the account of which 

 was recently published by M. A. Berard. 



198. In all these cases, the uterine orifices opened into a simple 

 or double vagina, according to circumstances; but in a subject 

 dissected by Saviard and Duverney, one of them opened into the 

 rectum, while the other maintained its natural disposition. A simi- 

 lar case may be found in the works of Valisnieri; at any rate, whe- 

 ther the OS tincae be simple or compound, whether it be the termi- 

 nation of a two horned womb, or of one of a perfecdy natural form, 

 it is not extremely uncommon to see it terminate in the rectum, the 

 bladder, or urethra, or even in the hypogastrium, above the pubis. 



199. Is it now necessary to remark that the question so long 

 debated, as to double uteri, resolves itself into a mere logomachy? 

 If by double uterus we are to understand the simultaneous existence 

 of two wombs, each possessed of two tubes and two ovaries, it is 

 clear that none such have been met with; if, on the contrary, to 

 constitute this condition it is only necessary to have a more or less 

 complete division of the natural uterus into two equal or unequal 

 parts, each one having its own tube, ovary, cavity and cervix, there 

 are too many examples, it is an anomaly too often observed, and too 

 easy to be explained according to the laws of the animal economy, 

 to permit us to entertain the shadow of a doubt about it at the pre- 

 sent day. 



200. The gestative organ is subject to other irregularities. M. 

 Baudelocque discovered, and had a drawing made of a preternatural 

 canal, which extended from the right tube to the cavity of the neck, 

 passing in the substance of the parietes of the womb. Madame 

 Boivin also makes mention of a kind of irregular canal which seemed 

 to form a communication betwixt the ovary and the superior part of 

 the vagina; and perhaps there is no great difference between this 

 anomaly and the canal mentioned by M. Gartner. Several authors 

 have spoken of wombs obliterated either wholly, or in part; either 

 by a primitive faultiness of the development, or accidentally; the 

 cervix uteri may present a considerable length and size, as in the 

 remarkable cases cited by Bichat, MM. Lallemant, Segard, Gar- 

 dien, &c., and its position may be deranged by preternatural adhe- 

 sions, which fix one of its faces or edges too near the margin of the 

 pelvis, either in front, on one side, or backwards. The ovaries may 

 escape from the pelvis through the openings at the groins, descend 

 into the upper part of the labia pudendi, or pass over to the side 

 opposite to that they ought to occupy, and become entangled with 



