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The Medico-chirurgical review and journal of practical medicine (1847)
The Medico-chirurgical review and journal of practical medicine - 1847 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 1847] Négrier on the JVeck of the Womb. 61 pulsion of false membranes, are referred to the difficult passage of the blood along the canal of the cervix. M. Né... more »grier omits to notice the feet that the cavity of the womb and not the cervix yields the menstrual blood. The peculiar faintness, sometimes amounting to syncope, which is noticed by some women when a fruitful coitus has taken place, results, according to Négrier, from a dilatation of the neck of the womb in its efforts to draw in (aspirer) the semen, and the increased sensibility of thejpart from the venereal orgasm. M. Négrier notices the formation of the decidua from the cavity of the womb, and the closing of the cervix by the plug of mucus. He speaks of the decidua as a pulpy matter, forming after a time a serous sac ; and he states that the upper part of the mucous plug becomes solid, and organised, resembling the pulp of the decidua, and that blood passes into it, which is not held in regular vessels, but imbibed at that part of the plug in contact with the ovum. He noticed this in ova of the fourth to the seventh month. M. Jacquemier's views of the formation of the decidua are similar to those of M. Négrier. He speaks of its " organisation as very simple. At first it is not distinct from the fluid secreted by the uterus under the influence of the specific excitement caused by fecundation ; a coagulable fluid separating itself into solid parts, which are deposited over the uterus and the ovum in semi-solid layers, offering the most simple form of false membrane ; the remainder of the fluid remains in the cavity of the decidua to disappear at a later time." Our authors do not appear to be aware of the investigations of Dr. Sharpey, Mr. Goodsir and others, into the structure of the decidua. We believe that its glandular...« less