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and terminated at its outer end in a large trumpet-shaped mouth. 
The uterine horns tapered to a narrow end, where the tubes arose 
from them. 
When the cornua were opened into, the cavity was seen to be 
dilated, and the mucous membrane was folded longitudinally ; seven 
to nine folds were present in the circumference of the horn, and 
the biggest fold projected as much as IJ inches into the cavity. 
As the folds approached the uterine end of the Fallopian tube they 
diminished greatly in depth, but increased somewhat in number, 
and were continuous with similar mucous folds in the Fallopian 
tube. For about 9 inches from the tip of the cornu, the Fallopian 
tube readily admitted a thick porcupine quill ; it then rapidly 
dilated so that two fingers could be passed into it ; but when it 
formed the trumpet-shaped mouth, it was so widely dilated that 
both fists could be accommodated in it. The membrane lining this 
greatly dilated mouth was longitudinally folded. These folds were 
prolonged into the tube proper by one extremity, but by the other 
they formed a series of membranous fimbriated processes, which 
varied in length from 2 to 10 inches ; some of the processes were 
narrow bands, but others were triangular flaps of membrane. Ex- 
ternal to these fimbriae, but continuous with their bases, were three 
large somewhat triangular flaps, which formed, as it were, an outer 
circle of broad fimbriae, each of which measured about 10 inches at 
the base and varied in the extent of projection from 8 to 10 inches. 
The surface of these flaps next the mouth of the tube was traversed 
by longitudinal folds of delicate translucent membrane. As one 
traced the longitudinal folds outwards from the tuba proper, the 
membrane forming them became thinner and more translucent ; it 
lost the appearance to the naked eye of a mucous membrane, and 
approximated in its aspect to the serous membrane, which formed 
the opposite surface. When examined microscopically, however, some 
elongated tubular glands were seen to open on the free surface, so 
that it was structurally a mucous and not a serous membrane. The 
arteries and veins, both in the uterine walls and in the broad liga- 
ment, were of large size, and the arteries were very tortuous. 
Each Ovary was connected to the posterior aspect of the broad 
ligament by a fold of peritoneum. It measured 7 inches long by 2 
inches in breadth, and was indented with deep furrows. Notwith- 
