On a mal-conformation of the uterine system in women : and on some physiological conclusions to be derived from it : in a letter to Sir E. Home, bart. V.P.R.S. / by A.B. Granville.

  • Granville, A. B. (Augustus Bozzi), 1783-1872.
Date:
1818
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Credit: On a mal-conformation of the uterine system in women : and on some physiological conclusions to be derived from it : in a letter to Sir E. Home, bart. V.P.R.S. / by A.B. Granville. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    its full developement on the right side only, where it presented the usual pear-like convexity and undulation ; while the left, exhibited a direct straight line, scarcely half an inch distant from the centre, although more than two inches could be measured from that same point to the outline of the right side. But this is not all: the spermatic and uterine vessels, the Fallopian tube, and the ovarium, with its surrounding periton^eal folds (which on the right side were placed as usual, and in their natural state, with the regular opening into the fundus uteri) were not to be found in the left. The rudiments, for they could be called by no other name, of those appendages of the uterine system on that side, were discovered lying in the inferior part of the cavity of the pelvis, loosely connected with the cervix of the uterus ; the ligamentum rotundum being inserted into the superior and interior ridge of the os pubis of the same side. In dissecting this confused mass, we perceived what may be said to have been an ovarium, shrivelled, horny, and dry, and lost within the intricacies of the substance to which it was attached. None of the other parts of generation presented any par- ticular appearance worthy of remark. I have endeavoured to pourtray the peculiar arrangement of the parts above described in the accompanying sketch, taken at the time. (PI. XVII.) This woman had been the mother of eleven children of both sexes, and had, as I have before observed, been delivered a few days previousl}» of twins, a male and a female. From this latter circumstance, in particular, we are enabled, for the first time, to form a definite opinion regarding the theory which has been advanced, at different times, respecting