An elementary system of physiology / By John Bostock.

  • Bostock, John, 1773-1846.
Date:
1830
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    power, as is proved by the mechanical force which it exercises during- parturition. Yet, notwithstanding tliis circumstance, it would appear that it is some- what difficult to demonstrate the fibres, for we learn that some anatomists of eminence have even doubted of their existence.'^ ^ shank on the Absorbents, p. 156.. 8 ; for the nerves to Walter, Tab. Nerv. Thor. et Abel No. 1. fig. 1. 472, 3; and to Tiedemann, Tab. Nerv. Uteri. Haller has given two good •plates of the uterus and its appendages. Opera Min. t, ii. p. 32. and Icon. Anat. Fas. 1. tab. 3. fig. I. We have good plans of the uterus in Bell's Anat. v. iv. p. 229, et seq., which very aptly illus- trate its form in all its different states and its connexion with the contiguous parts. By way of comparison the plates of Swammer- dam may be consulted in his Miraculum Naturae. Haller, El. Phys. xxviii. 2. admits that the uterus is obvi- ously muscular in quadrupeds, but says that the human uterus is .of a peculiar structure. He describes it as being a cellular spongy mass, in w'hich it is not easy to detect any muscular fibres ; yet he acknowledges their existence, § 11, and brings forward many proofs of their contractility, § 10. Blumenbach, however, informs us that he could never detect any muscular fibres in the uterus, and in conformity with his general practice, attributes its -action to the vita propria, § 547. He assigns other ofiices for the vita propria of this organ, § 56l, 598. This may also be regarded as the opinion of Bichat, Anat. Des. t. v. p. 287. But it would appear that, with some exceptions, the most distinguished modern anatomists are advocates for its muscularity; Dr. Elliotson enu- merates the following names among the supporters of this doc- trine : Malpighi, Morgagni^ Mery, Littre, Astruc, Ruysch, Monro, Vicusscns, and Haller. To these may be added, among the earlier anatomLsts, Vesllng, Syntagma Anat. p. 53, 4, and among the modems, the great name of Wni. Hunter, pi. 14, of his work «n the gravid uterus. If any doubt remained upon the subject, we mijjht consider it aa removed by the accurate investigations