540 Dr. FrsüER'S Account of 
ters, for the fpace of two or three- inches; feemed to lie loofe, 
and contained a fall quantity of urine ; their coats were thin 
and confiderably diftended. They then entered upon the fchir- 
rus, one on each fide, involved in a membrane- hereafter men- 
tioned, running obliquely forward and downward, till they en- 
‘tered the bladder ; after they were connected to the íchirrus, 
their appearance was the teverfe of the former : to enable them 
‘to take this circuit, they had been greatly extended, and their 
diameters were. exceedingly fmall. - The uterus was extended in 
a right line upon the fchirrus from its bafis, to which the fun- 
dus uteri adhered, through the anterior groove, almoft to its 
apex, continuing about an inch and a quarter wide, and firmly 
attached through its whole length. Its coats appeared in-a'na-- 
‘tural ftate, Sept that da were thinner xx realon of their ex- 
fenfion. —— 
"The appearance of the tube p» was fo unnatural shes: 
they were fcarcely diftinguifhable ; we found a membranous co- 
“vering clofely embracing the bafis, the anterior, and lateral fides. 
of the fchirrus, extending downward nearly to the. pe/vis-;, and. 
by its upper and lateral edges adhering to the fchirrus, it feemed 
to arife from the uterus, which was fituated in-the middle of it, 
“and its external membrane was a continuation of the external 
membrane of the uterus. Through this expanfion on the bafis- 
of the fchirrus were feveral fmooth but irregular apertures, of 
about two inches circumference, through which the bafis of the 
fchirrus appeared ; it was here about a quarter of an inch thick, 
its fibres flefhy and varioully convolved, the lower part of it was. 
much thinner and purely membranous. That part of this te- 
gument which was fpread upon and near the bafis, appeared to 
be formed by a diftenfion of the flopin tubes included in the 
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