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bubonocele, and who had the ovaria, fallopian tube, &c. in the hernial sac, 

 had also a tumour in the substance of the uterus at its fundus; but veiy 

 probably this substance grew on the inside of the fundus. It was about 

 as large as a small foetus's head, and did not affect the lateral parts nor 

 ' cervix' of the uterus. But what was most remarkable was, that the 

 substance of the uterus was not diminished in thickness where it was 

 extended by the tumour, but, when cut into, presented the appearance 

 of a pregnant uterus of corresponding size, viz. the same thickness and 

 softness of texture ; the veins forming what are called ' sinuses,' 

 which cause the softness of texture and the lamellated appearance. 

 The parts of the uterus not concerned in this tumour were of the usual 

 texture*. She died in the time of her menses, which were confined to 

 the cavity of the uterus. 



The size of the nerves of the uterus do not alter in impregnation. 



Of the Round Ligaments. 



Those of a mare had plainly red muscular fibres passing up from the 

 [abdominal] ring along them, exactly similar to the cremaster in qua- 

 drupeds where the testes have not come down, or in those where they 

 never come down (as is sometimes the case in sheep). The round 

 ligament is an inverted cremaster ; and in the female would seem to be 

 something analogous to the nipple in man, viz. an imitation of the 

 opposite sex. 



Vagina. 



All viviparous animals, excepting the ' viviparous ex ovo,' i. e. the 

 viper, and perhaps the piked dog-fish, have a vagina 1 , which is placed 

 in the middle of the body, before the rectum, and has one or two 

 uteruses at the farther end of it. 



The veins of the parts of generation in the female increase to an 

 immense size when impregnated. 



The veins of the testes of the skate-kind also increase veiy much at 

 the season of copulation. In the female skate the veins of the ovarium 

 and fallopian tubes [oviducts], and of the glandular bodies, are so enlarged 

 as to surround them like cellular membrane. 



Of the Pudenda. 



The skin of the pudenda grows redder and redder to the years of 

 puberty, and seems to have little or no rete mucosum. When a woman 

 * Vide Preparation. [Quaere : Where ? — Wm. Clift.] 



1 [The homologous part, in Marswpialia, is divided or double, like the uterus.] 



