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Show 0f the Uterus. 566 "ifch'irctcf :3: 735m. rt :At'lion of tr: figure, Book Ll'IaTrtMTV‘ The Nerves of the Vagina are Propagated from the 'Par Vega/II, and from divers Branches derived from the 0: Sacmm, and do tranfmit [lore of Fibres into the fubltance and Coats of the Vagina, which are the great Ingredients, integrating their curious contexture, giving them an exquifite lenfe, mofl evident in Coition. The action of this part is tcnfion, derived from a great Source of Blood (huing it with rednels) carried into it by the Haemotrordal and Hypogas flrick Arteries in the time of Fruition, when the Vagina is full ol great fcnlc, bv reafon a quantity of Nervous Juice, impregnated with Animal Spirits, is difpenfed into it. The tenfenels of this part much contribureth to the emifli. on of Seminal Liquor into its Cavity, wherein it is conveyed into the in- ward Orifice, Neck, and thence into the Bofom of the ‘Utcrm. The ufe of the Vagina, as a round, tenfe, membranous Subltance, is to give reception to the (Penis, and to convey the emitted Semen into the Cavi:y of the "term, and to be a Channel, through which the Menflrua are thrown out of the Body, and to be a Palfage to bring the Farm into the world when it arrireth to a due Perfection. Book I. Part IV. 0f the Uterus. 557 divers degrees of diliention, as the Firm: obtaineth greater and greater menfions; and as not being connet‘led in its bottom to any neighb diouring part, it hath liberty to contract it felf upon the exclufion of the its appurtenances, the Amnios, Chorion, and Placenta uterine. Ham: and The "term is adorned with variety of Figures, in Maids it is endued with T'." "Em fomewhar of a Pear-like figure , and not with a round or quadran gular, as "WWW. fome will have it 3 in Women great with Child, in the firfl month it {omewhat refembleth the Bladder 0t Urine, and it become th more and more expanded according to the greater and greater Dimenfions of the Fwtzty, the body of it ( being confidcred without the Neck and Vagina ) is adorned almolt with an Urbicular Figure. The Neck and Vagina of the impregnated Womb is not co-extended with the body of the Mfr-rm, but reteineth the fame figure and diltention it had before its impregnation, which is oblErvable not only in Women, but in Cows, Sheep, and in other Animals too. Galen being only verl‘ed in the Difieétion of Bruits, did aflign Horns to The vmunn the warm of Women, which is endued only with one Cavity and not with gmifiil‘: two, as in other Animals, who have diliiné} Cavities parted one from ano- "we rher, who begin almolt immediately after the termination of the Vagina and Neck, and pals afterward in a kind of Semicircles, endued with many incurvarions fomewhar relbmbling the horns of Rams, and in the "term of CHAP. bruit Animals not impregnated, the horns are carried without variety of XV. Flexures in a more even circumference. | The ‘ZJ/crm as fome imagine, is parted into many diltinét Cells (as {0 The body of many dill‘ercnt places of Conception) fome are feated in the right fide as fiflmm 0f the Uterus. peculiar to Males, and others in the left ordained for Females, and the fe- 3325135533 He uterus is called Matrix, quad Matrem Referat, as entertaining the The {rtuaciou n the Drum, I Foams in the tender Embraces of its bofome, wherein it is fecured from outward accidents, and cheriflied by Vital Heat, flowing from Blood, contained in the Veffcls of the "term. It is feared in the lowelt Region of the third Apartiment, in a peculiar place, Called the (Pele/i5, between the Inttjiimmz rec-tum and Bladder of Urine, that the mean fituation of the place of our Produftion, between two Receptacles, the one ofgrolTer, the other of thinner Excrements, might be a remem- Parts confir in; rn the 'Uum. brancer of the mean condition of our firlt Propagation, and make us refleé‘t upon our {elves in low Apprehenfions of our Primitive el'tare. Nature, out of great difcretion, hath lodged the "term in a molt fife Repofitory,guarded before with the Sharebones, and behind with the 0: Sammh and on each fide with the Bones of the Ilium, as encircled with firong walls, for its greater fafety and prel'ervation. And the Cavity in Women (hemmed in with variety of large Bones} hath greater Dimenfions than in Men, as making provifion for the dil'tcntion of the uterus, in cafe of a Farms. The urem is not lodged exaélly in the middle of the rPele/i5, but fame- times inclineth to one, fometimes to the other fide of the Hypagaflrium, as Theeonntxion of ihc 'Uurlu. learned 7):: Graaf hath obferved. . The ‘Urerm, that it might be kept in its proper Seat, is fafiened, in relation to its neck, ( which is very (hurt) to the Vagina, Intcflinum "diamond Bladder of Urine, by the interpofirion of many Membranes, and bath 1‘5 bottom free from all Connexion with other parts, to have the advantage of IVEI'S venth placed in the middle of the other fix, as infiitured for Hermop hradites, which are Monflers of Nature, and therefore it is moll: improb able that {he lhould contrive any place, or take any care of them, and as for the other fix Cells, they oppofe Ocular Demonltration, by realbn I have feen Womb often diileéted and have very much inlpeéted their inward Cavity relatins g to the Body of the mm, and have found it wholly deltitute of Cells, as being one fimple Cavity, which is very {mall in Maids, and not much greater in Women, unlefs it be diltended with a F(pm. The Womb may be laid to confill: of two Cavities, the one feetth in the Thence? and Neck, and the other in the body of it, which is fomewhat oblong, and ap- Wim'rilfir peareth more narrow in its beginning near the Neck, and is fomewhat larger "mcm‘m'l toward the bottom of the "term, whofe inward Orifice is fo limit, that it is not receptive of a finall Probe, and therefore is not capable to admit the Clans of the Pom}: in Coition, as Learned Spigelim imagineth, and if this Orifice be overmuch relaxed, it hindeteth Conception, which happen eth in an immoderate Flux of the Menfirua, which being over, the Orifice of the "term is {hut up clofe to keep it from the coldnefs of the Air, which would elfe prove very offenfive and prejudicial to the ‘Uterm. The "term is endued with an Orifice (as fome fay) refiembling mouth of a Tenth 2 And Galen thinketh it to be like the Clans of the the Thcorificc (Penis "my!" in lhape, upon this apprehenfion, that it doth enter in Coitio n into the Neck of the 'Utmu, conjoyned immediately to the body of it, which cannot done but by a "Penis of .1 Monl'trous length, which giveth a high dilcom be po- fure to the orifice 0F the uterus, as being very {mall in circumference, which is l'omewhat lefs in Maids than in Women having born Childr en; and if it be too much relaxed s one caiife oi: Barrennefs. The |
