THE _two broad Ligaments_ are _Membranous_, and call’d ALÆ VESPERTILIONUM; which spring from the PERITONÆUM, and join the WOMB on each Side to the _OSSA ILIA_: So that the _OVARIA_ are fasten’d to _one End_ of them, and the TUBÆ _Fallopianæ_ lie along the _Other_. THE _two round Ligaments_ arise from the _Fore_ and _lateral Part_ of the Bottom of the WOMB, and pass thro’ the Rings of the _Muscles_ of the ABDOMEN, terminating in _Fat_ near the GROINS. _They_ are of a hard _Substance_, pretty _Big_ at the Bottom of the WOMB; but _smaller_ and _flatter_, as they approach the _OS PUBIS_. Now Those _Four Ligaments_ serve to keep the WOMB streight, steady, and firm in its proper Place _before BIRTH_, and to restore it to its natural _Position_, by the Help of CONTRACTION, _After_. THE _Orifice_ of the WOMB opening into the _VAGINA_, is of the same _Figure_ with the _Nut_ of the _PENIS_: This in _VIRGINS_ is very _small_, scarcely admitting a _Specillum_ or _Probe_; in OTHERS it is much _larger_; but in _Women with Child_, several small _Ducts_ or Vesicles open among the RUGÆ, which discharge a _Glutinous Liquor_ to close and seal up this _Orifice_, till the Time of _BIRTH_. THE _Substance_ of the WOMB is _Solid_ and _Muscular_, composed of a various PLEXUS, or Web of fleshy _Fibres_, woven like a NET, with the Interposition of innumerable _Vessels_, of _ARTERIES_, _VEINS_, _NERVES_, &c. _Without_, it is surrounded with a _Thin_ and _Smooth Membrane_ from the PERITONÆUM; and _within_ its _Cavity_, furnished with a _Thick_, _Porous_, and _Nervous one_, call’d the proper _Membrane_ of the WOMB. THE _Veins_ and _Arteries_ of the WOMB, proceed from the _Spermatick Vessels_, and HYPOGASTRICKS; which _Vessels_ are all inserted in the proper _Membrane_. The _Arteries_ convey the BLOOD for its Nourishment; which accumulating and abounding there in _great Quantity_, at _Maturity_ of Years (when no _more_ is requir’d for the _Encrease_ or _Growth_ of the Body) it distends the _Vessels_, and distills into the Bottom of the WOMB: Whence proceeds the _Blood_ which nourisheth the FOETUS in the _Pregnant Woman_, and the _Monthly Terms_ or MENSTRUA in the _Woman not with Child_; which _Evacuation_, MEN Themselves are also subject to in a great Measure; (notwithstanding their inconsiderate _Detractions_ and vain _Talk_ on this Head) save only that in THEM the _Redundant Humour_ passes off a different Way by _Urine_, by the _Nose_, and sometimes by the _Hemorrhoidal Veins_, &c. THE _VEINS_ Serve only to reconduct to the _Heart_, the BLOOD which is neither wholly evacuated nor consum’d, as I observed more at large _Before_. But the NERVES arise from the _Intercostals_, and those of the OS SACRUM; remarkable _Branches_ of which run along the Back of the _Clitoris_, from whence this _Part_ is susceptible of the very slightest _Impression_.