ANATOMY. 
merous wrinkles and prominences, which 
are less conspicuous in women who have 
had children, than in virgins. 
The uterus is a hollow organ; but its ca- 
vity is so small in the impregnated state, 
and its sides are so thick and dense, that it 
feels like a solid fleshy mass. Its broadest 
and largest part, which is called the fundus, 
is situated directly upwards. The smaller 
and narrower portion, termed the neck, is 
downwards. The length of the organ from 
the fundus to the end of the neck, is about 
three inches ; its breadth at the fundus about 
one inch, and at the cervix considerably 
less. It is situated within the cavity in- 
cluded by the bones of the pelvis. The pe- 
ritoneum passes from the bladder to the an- 
terior surface of the uterus, and completely 
covers the organ. It is extended from the 
two sides of the uterus to the bones of the 
pelvis, forming two broad duplicatures, call- 
ed the broad ligaments of the uterus ; each 
of which Includes three parts, named the 
appendages of the uterus : viz. the ovarium, 
fallopian tube, and round ligament. 
Tiie cavity of the uterus opens into the 
posterior part of the vagina by an orifice 
named the os tineas or os internum uteri. 
The round ligament of the uterus is a fi- 
brous chord, passing from the fundus uteri 
through the abdominal ring, and serving to 
confine this organ in its proper situation. 
The ovarium is an oval fleshy body, situ- 
ated towards the posterior surface of the 
broad ligament. It contains some small 
watery vesicles, called ovula graafiana, 
which are supposed to be the germs of the 
future beings, that are to be called into ac- 
tion by the stimulus of the male semen. 
The fallopian tube, is a convoluted canal, 
commencing by a very minute orifice from 
the corner of the uterus, running along the 
upper margin of the broad ligaments, and 
gradually increasing in size, till it ends near 
the ovarium by a broad trumpet-shaped 
mouth, open to the cavity of the abdomen, 
and having an elegant arrangement of 
plaits and fringes surrounding the aperture, 
whence it is often called the fimbriated ex- 
tremity of the tube. 
Male organs of generation .— The testes, 
or glands, which produce the semen, are 
contained in the scrotum, a bag formed of 
common integuments, and hanging from the 
front of the pelvis between the thighs. A 
prominent line, called the raphe, runs along 
the middle of this, and divides it into two 
equal portions. The testes are surrounded 
and connected in their situation by a loose 
cellular substance. They are of an oval 
shape, and about equal in size to a pigeon’s 
egg. They hang from the abdomen by the 
spermatic chords, whieh consist of the arte- 
ries, veins, lymphatics, and excretory tubes' 
of the testes, united by cellular substance, 
and covered by a muscle, called the cre- 
master, by the action of which the testis is 
occasionally drawn up towards the belly. 
The substance of the testis is covered by 
two membranous tunics, one, which imme- 
diately invests it, and is called tunica albu- 
ginea; another, which surrounds this more 
loosely, and forms a bag, in which the testis 
hangs, the tunica vaginalis. 
There is a small body partly distinct from 
the testis, and placed hehind it, called the 
epididymis. 
The substance of the testis is found by a 
section to be soft : and it is composed of a 
congeries of very minute tubes, named tu- 
buli seminiferi, which may be unravelled 
and separated by macerating in water, al- 
though they are previously connected into 
the appearance of a fleshy mass. The dia- 
meter of these tubes is estimated at ^ 5 th of 
an inch ; and the number of them at about 
60,000. If they were joined together, they 
would form a tube of about 5000 feet long. 
These tubes terminate ultimately in a sin- 
gle small canal, which, by its innumera- 
ble turns and windings, makes up the whole 
epididymis. If this could be completely 
drawn out, it would be about 30 feet long. 
It increases rather in size towards the end 
of the epididymis, and leaves that body in 
the form of a simple and unconvoluted tube 
assuming the name of vas deferens, and as- 
cending along the back of the spermatic 
chord to the abdomen. It can be readily 
distinguished in that situation in the livino- 
person : it feels like a hard chord, about the 
size of a crow quill. 
Wien the spermatic chord has entered 
the abdomen, the vas deferens leaves it • 
runs along the back of the bladder, and 
opens into the commencement of the ure- 
thra. 
Vesiculat seminales.—^e fore the vas defe- 
rens terminates in the drethra, it is joined 
at an acute angle by the canal of the vesicu- 
la seminalis. 
These vesicles are two soft bodies, lying 
in contact with the under-surface of the 
bladder, and formed, each of them, by the 
convolutions of a single membranous tube. 
An injected liquor thrown into the vas defe- 
lens will pass into the vesicula seminalis, 
lather than into the urethra; for the open- 
