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within the other, twines its arms around the maternal vessels and feeds itself in 

 the measure of its necessities, by means of this pumping action in the womb and 

 placenta which represents respiration. The spermatic and uterine arteries are 

 the feeders (Fig. 6, <s, ), while the accompanying veins are the discharging 



FIG. 6. Showing the ARTERIES AND VEINS TO THE WOMB, fi, spermulic artery and veins 

 (ovarian); u, uterine artery and vein; 1, vessels passing between the muscular fibres: 2, peri- 

 toneum; g, Fallopian tube;/, ligament of ovary; r, round ligament: /', inferior ligament or 

 duplicating of peritonaeum corresponding with Douglas's Cttl de eac; r. vagina. 



vessels. To this must be added the uterine lymphatics, which arc very large in 

 the impregnated womb. They terminate in the pelvic and lumbar glands. The 

 spermatic arteries and veins have similar origin and termination, as in the 

 male, while the uterine artery is a branch of the internal iliac, with the venous 

 return through a vein of the same name. The deeply suggestive fact to 

 note in this connection is that the dense plexuses of nerves to the fundus and 

 sides of the womb converge in the nervous ganglia about these vascular trunks, 

 or the spermatic and hypogastric ganglia (Fig. 7, e, ir, r). It will be seen that 

 the nerves to the fundus (v, x) converge in, or radiate from, the spermatic gan- 

 glion (ic), which surrounds the spermatic artery and vein (e) (which corresponds 

 with the attachment of the placenta), while those in the neck and sides from the 

 hypogastric ganglion (r) are brought in direct relation with this ganglion by 

 means ot intercommunicating nerves (/) for unifying the action throughout. 

 Tims, nervous force to the womb is literally lanked upon the bloodvessels, 



