The medical mirror. Or treatise on the impregnation of the human female. Shewing the origin of diseases, and the principles of life and death / By E. Sibly.

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[1796?]
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Credit: The medical mirror. Or treatise on the impregnation of the human female. Shewing the origin of diseases, and the principles of life and death / By E. Sibly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    At the upper extremity of this canal, the uterus or womb is feated. It is of a pyramidal form, with its apex towards the vagina. Its greateft length, in vir- gins, is not more than two or three inches; and its width is fcarceiy one j its internal cavity muft there- fore be very fmall. It is connefted to the vagina or great canal by a paflage fo fmall, that a bodkin or ftilet cannot be introduced without much difficulty. In the broad or upper extremity of the womb, the ovaria are feated. Theirfubftance is fpongy, and they contain an indefinite number of veficles of a dufkifh femitranfpa- rent quality, the involucra of which are diftinft, and lim.ilar to the general fubftance of the ovaria. Thefe veficles are the ova or eggs, which contain the rudi- ments of the foetus, -and which mufl: abfolutely be im- pregnated with the male feed, before it can be poflible for conception to take place. Now it has been, and ftillis, the common opinion, that when venereal embraces occur, the whole genital fyffcem of the male being thrown into adlion by libi- dinous defire and violent fridlion, by this exertion the femen is thrown with confiderable vehemence from the penis, and is either forced through the mouth of the womb, and attraded by the ovaria; or, that it is re- ceived by the Fallopian tubes, and conveyed by them through a variety of convolutions, till by their fim- briEe they are conduded to the ovaria, in the manner I have already fully defcribed in the Medical Part of my Family Phyfician i all which tedious and complicated procefs is alledged to take place in the injia/ii of coition. I * Others