Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849. Excerpt: ... SECOND MEMOIR. 1840--1841. rN the 27th of June, 1840, I examined the uterus of a woman who died suddenly on the tenth day after "delivery. The hypogastric plexuses, and those both on the anterior and posterior surfaces of the body of the uterus, were very much reduced in size from what they were observed to be in the uteri of six and nine months. This observation made it certain that the nerves of the uterus having performed their function during gestation, and in labour, gradually return to the condition in which they are found in the unimpregnated state. On the 12th of September, 1840, I enjoyed another opportunity of examining the nerves of the uterus at the end of the ninth month. The foetus and its appendages had been expelled a short time before death. The spermatic nerves on both sides passed off from the renal plexus, and after accompanying the spermatic arteries for about two inches, several considerable branches left these vessels and passed to the veins which they surrounded and followed to the uterus. The absorbents on the right side were seen covered with filaments of nerves. The aortic plexus, and the hypogastric nerves and plexuses, presented the same appearance as in the last dissection of the gravid uterus at the full period, and were larger than in the uterus of six months. Branches were seen proceeding from the anterior part of each hypogastric plexus to the corresponding ureter, the uterine artery and vein, and to the neck and body of the uterus, as above described. The trunk of each hypogastric nerve was prolonged through the middle of the plexus to the ganglion at the cervix, into which the second, third, and fourth sacral nerves sent branches. Between the posterior part of each hypogastric plexus and the sacral nerves there were comm...
