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The horns of the uterus are short. The vagina opens close to the 

 verge of the anus, hut externally, on a pretty ohtuse prominence. By 

 the sides of this prominence, close to the verge of the anus, are two 

 pretty deep fissures, or cavities, which are glandular, and secrete, pro- 

 bably, an essential oil, as in the beaver, &c. The clitoris nearly sur- 

 rounds the mouth of the vagina, like the hymen in the human subject. 

 The common vagina passes up and seems rather to be continued into 

 the urethra than into the uterus. About half an inch from the clitoris 

 open the two ora tincae 1 , which pass upwards; but they are so small 

 that it is hardly possible to pass anything into them : they seem to pass 

 up to two bodies, which seem to be glandular, and which bodies appear, 

 on viewing them externally, to be the two short horns of the uterus. 

 The ovaria He almost upon the kidneys. The body of the uterus is a 

 pretty large bag of a pyramidal figure ; whether it has horns, or they 

 are only the Fallopian tubes, I could not tell. The vagina opens ex- 

 ternally, distinct from, but very near to, the anus 2 . 



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In an old one which came from the southern part of the continent of 

 America, the contents of the thorax, abdomen, and pelvis brought 

 home, in spirits, by Dr. Blane, were given to me, and I took the 

 following description from the female parts 3 . 



The common vagina [uro-genital canal] appeared to be very short, 

 and the principal opening from it is the urethra: a number of small 

 orifices of glands studded its surface. The proper vagina opens or 

 begins by two orifices which open immediately into one cavity or canal. 

 This cavity is about 2 inches long ; and near the fundus or further end 

 it dilates and becomes somewhat of a pyramidal figure, terminating hi 

 two comers, like the human uterus. There is no os tincae ; but it 

 appears to be plain [or visible] where the uterus begins; for this 

 pyramidal part has eminences on its inside. There is a large capsula 

 ovaria which is close to the corners of the uterus : at the upper edge of 

 the broad ligament, rather behind and close to the comer of the uterus, 

 is the opening of the capsula ovarii, which is small in comparison with 

 the capsule itself. On the anterior edge of this orifice is the fringe, 

 or opening of the Fallopian tube : the tube runs in a serpentine course 

 upon the capsule and opens at the corners of the uterus at the fimbriae. 

 The ovarium is a flat oblong body attached to the posterior surface of 

 the capsula. The lateral attachment of the uterus called the broad 

 ligament, in which are the parts above described, has its upper edge 



1 [The two orifices of the vagina mentioned below.] 



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