Hymen in Cohabitation, Child-Bearing, Etc.
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Gentlemen,?I take the liberty of submitting to you several drawings which illustrate the condition of the entrance to the vagina, and especially of the hymen, after cohabitation and childbearing. It is known to you, that hitherto the general opinion has been that the hymen by the first cohabitation was torn, and that the cicatricial retracting remains of the same formed the carunculee myrtiformes. It was also generally believed that those elevated warty excrescences at several' places of the vaginal entrance were directly formed by the first coitus. This opinion does not agree with the real circumstances as inspection teaches. I have already, in the year 1867, drawn attention to the fact that the carunculse myrtiformes are first formed in consequence of childbearing on account
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