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corium, is everywhere furnished with much-developed papilla, 

 in the labia minora ^ — Jf", and on the clitoris ^ — £"' in 

 length; and with a squamose epithelium of 0*04 — 1 12'", the 

 most superficial cells of which are 0*01 — 0*02'" in size (fig. 

 56, 4). The labia majora, in the structure of their coverings, 

 correspond partly with the mucous membrane, in part ap- 

 proach the cutis, and contain, in the interior, common adipose 

 tissue. 



The external genital organs are furnished with various 

 smaller and larger glands. Sebaceous glands, mostly of a 

 rosette-form and considerable size (i — 1/"), occur in the labia 

 majora, on the external and internal aspects, in connexion 

 with larger and smaller hair-follicles ; moreover, in larger 

 quantity in the labia minora, for the most part without hairs 

 and rather smaller (from ^ to %") ; occasionally, also, around 

 the orifice of the urethra, and laterally at the entrance of the 

 vagina. Common racemose mucous glands, i — 1J'" in size, with 

 scarcely visible or tolerably wide openings, and having excretory 

 ducts, either short, or as much as 6'" long, exist in very various 

 number around the orifice of the urethra, in the vestibule and 

 in the lateral portions of the entrance of the vagina. Lastly, 

 the two " glands of Bartholin!," corresponding to Cowper's 

 glands in the male, are situated at the inferior extremity of the 

 bulbi vestibuli ; they are common racemose mucous glands, 

 6'" in size, with pyriform gland-vesicles lined with a tes- 

 selated epithelium, 002 — 005'" in diameter, and lodged in a 

 compact nucleated connective tissue without muscular fibres. 

 The excretory ducts of these glands, 7 — 8'" long and |'" wide, 

 have, external to their mucous membrane invested with a 

 cylinder epithelium OOl'" thick, a delicate longitudinal layer 

 of smooth muscles, and always contain a viscous, amorphous, 

 clear, yellowish mucus. 



The clitoris, with its two corpora cavernosa and glans 

 attached to the bulbi vestibuli, the divided corpus cavernosum 

 urethra of the female, present on a small scale precisely the 

 same conditions as the corresponding parts and corpora ca- 

 vernosa of the male; and in them the muscular elements are 

 even more readily isolated than in the man. 



The blood-vessels of the vagina, and of the external 

 genital organs, present, upon the whole, nothing much worthy 



