The principles and practice of midwifery : with some of the diseases of women.

  • Milne, Alexander.
Date:
1871
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    greatest diameter being at the middle 2>oi'tion of the fundus, and the walls of the body ojt^JOsite the centre of its triangular space. 48. The Mucous Membrane lining the cavity of the body is worthy of careful notice. It is about a line in dejith, and is of a rather 2>ale coloiu’. Under the microsco^ie numerous jioints are seen, which are the openings of the follicles. These glands resemble the follicles of Lieberkuhn in the intestinal canal. They are tubular and coiled ujion themselves, and are about l-30th of a line in diameter. They are aiTanged con- centrically, their mouths o^iening on the mucous surface, and their blind extremities being imbedded in the attached surface. Two sometimes o}ien on the mucous surface liy one outlet. The function of these follicles is still an open question. The late distinguislied and lamented Goodsir, the eminent Shaiqiey, and the no less able Kblliker, believe that they 2U’e})are the material out of wliich the decidua reflexa is foiTued; others think they secrete the menstrual fluid; while some again afBrm that they sini])ly secrete mucus. The discharge in leucorrluea is said by some to 2)roceed from these glands. The ejiithelium caiqDCting the mucous surface in the cavity of the body is cylindrical and ciliated. The cilia wave from below iqiw'ai'ds, and aid the ascent of the s})crm cells. In tlie cavity of the ceiwix the cilia are often absent. At the inferior jiart of the canal of the cervix, just at the margin of the os, the cylindrical and acid-secreting ejiithelium terminates, and the squamous begins. The entire vaginal asjiect of the os and cervix is covered by this latter. Papillcn.—Beneath the epithedium are numerous papilhc or villi. A single villus is made iqi of one or two looped blood-vessels, and an enveloj)e of cellular substance, all being coated with efiithclium. At the os they are supj)oscd to be endowed with siiecial sensa- tion of a sexual nature. They are perhaps also excitors of I’ellex action. u