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male. TRANS.] At birth the internal lips are larger than the ex- 

 ternal; in women who have frequently given birth to children, and 

 are thin [even during pregnancy], they project out beyond the 

 great lips ; in the Hottentot women they form the so-called 

 "aprons." 



c. The Clitoris an erectile organ, like the corpus cavernosum 

 penis lying close under the anterior commissure between the 

 great lips, surrounded by fat and a fibrous sheath. Commonly 

 one inch long, three lines thick, it often becomes much larger, and 

 then might be taken for a penis, (but it is not perforated by the 

 urethra, and the corp. spongiosum urethras is wanting in it). It 

 arises with two roots, from the ram. adscendent. oss. ischii, which 

 are united below the symphysis pubes, and thus terminated,, a few 

 lines before the symphysis, with a roundish extremity, glans 

 clitoridis ; prepuce andfrenulum exist. Lig. suspensorium and 

 Mm. ischio-cavernosi, as in the penis. M. constrictor vaginas 

 (this corresponds with m. bulbo-cavernosus penis). Arter. : pro- 



funda and dorsal, clitorid. from pudenda interna. 



d. The vestibule, vestibulum Vaginae, that is, the floor of the 

 pudendal fissure, between the clitoris and the inferior commissure ; 

 bounded laterally by the nymphae. A superior opening is found 

 therein, the orificium urethras, one inch [less] under the clitoris, 

 surrounded by a slight elevation and radiating folds ; and lower 

 down the entrance to the Vagina. Mucous follicles are found, 

 particularly in the region of the orifice of the urethra ; sebaceous 

 glands, which secrete a caseous substance of a peculiar smell upon 

 the nymphas. 



e. Glandulae Sartholinianas, (again made known by Tiedemann 

 in 1840) s. Duverneianas s. Cowperi, two flat, almost bean shaped, 

 reddish white, hardish glands ; of five to ten lines long, lie in a 

 considerable quantity of fat, at the sides of introitus vaginas (one 

 on either side) beneath the external skin of the inferior part of 

 labia majora and fill up the space, between the extremity of the 

 vagina, ram. ascend, ischii and crura and erector clitoridis, be- 

 fore the m. transvers. perinasi. 



Structure. The glands consist of small, flat rounded, and conglomerate 

 lobules, in which arises a membranous excretory duct, from caecal vesicles, 

 eight lines long, which passes out at the anterior border of the superior part 

 of the glands, before m. constrictor vaginae, passes behind the labia majora hori- 

 zontally, inwards and forwards, and opens with a wider orifice at the sides 

 of the vestibulum Vagina. 



Arteries : these are branches of pudenda interna and vaginales. 



Nerves : delicate twigs of n. pudendus. 



489. 6. The breasts, mammary glands, mammas, 

 are two semi-globular or conical (in Spanish women) glands on 



