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Excerpt from Early Contributions of Anatomy to Obstetrics
He writes about procidentia of the os vulvae (lib. Vi. 18) the removalof calculus (lib. Vii. 4) atresia (lib. Vii; mention ing two varieties when uterine, the membrane is Opposite to the mouth of the vulva; when from ulceration, it fills it with flesh and describing how the hymen is to be incised crucially and then cut away; but he gives no anatomical facts. And even in his lucid and judicious directions for the extraction of a dead foetus (lib. Vii. 29) we feel the same want. I draw your attention to the scantiness of female pelvic anatomy in the works of Celsus (whose life belongs-to the period before the Christian era) in order to contrast it with the remarkable knowledge Of the next writer, who begins what we have made our Second Period.
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