What are the Parts appropriated to Generation in Women?
They are the Spermatick Vessels, the Ovaries or Testicles, and the Matrix. The Spermatick Vessels are a Vein and an Artery on each side, as in Men: The Ovaries or Testicles, situated on the side of the bottom of the Matrix, are almost of the same bigness with those of Men, but of a round and flat Figure. The Vesiculæ, or little Bladders which they contain, are usually term'd Ova or Eggs by Modern Anatomists; and the Vessels that pass from these Testicles or Ovaries to the Cornua of the Uterus, are call'd Deferentia or Ejaculatoria.
The Matrix, Uterus or Womb, is the principal Organ of Generation, and the place where it is perform'd, resembling the Figure of a Pear with its Head upward, and being situated between the Gut Rectum and the Bladder: It is of a fleshy and membranous Substance, retain'd in its place by four Ligaments, fasten'd to the bottom; whereof the two upper are large ones, proceeding from the Loins, and the two lower round, taking their Rise from the Groin, where they form a kind of Goose-Foot, which is extended to the Os Pubis, and the flat part of the Thighs; which is the cause that Women are in danger of Miscarrying when they fall upon their Knees.
The Exterior Neck of the Womb, call'd Vagina, is made almost in form of a Throat or Gullet, extending it self outwardly to the sides of the Lips of the Pudendum, and being terminated inwardly at the internal Orifice of the Matrix, the shape whereof resembleth that of the Muzzle or Nose of a little Dog. The outward Neck of the womb is fasten'd to the Bladder and the Os Pubis before, and in the hinder part to the Os Sacrum: Between the Lips of the Pudendum lie the Nymphæ, which are plac'd at the Extremity of the Canal of the Bladder, to convey the Urines; and somewhat farther appear four Caruncles, or small pieces of Flesh, at the Entrance of the Vagina, which when join'd together make the thin Membrane call'd Hymen.
C H A P. XIV.
Of the Anatomy of the Thorax, Breast, or middle Venter.
What is the Breast?