THESE are, in short, all the _external Parts_ of _GENERATION_ in _Women_; and _these_ have all their proper respective _Functions_ assign’d them by NATURE; contributing conjunctly and severally to the _Charms_ of _COPULATION_: Which _ACTION_ alters the very _Course_ of the BLOOD, and _Motion_ of the _Animal SPIRITS_; and consequently sets all the describ’d _Parts_ in full _AGITATION_. Namely, thus
THE LABIA dilate: the ORIFICE swells: the NYMPHÆ give way: the CLITORIS (of exquisite Sensibility) erects: The GLANDS (by a _Protuberancy_ of the Parts) yield their _succous Contents_: The VAGINA draws close: The _Fibres_ of the WOMB complicate to open its _Orifice_: The _Branches_ of the _Spermatick_ ARTERY contract to draw the Extremities of the _Tubes_ to the _OVARIA_, as they carry the SEED to them: The SEED circulating in the _Veins_, which open in the _Cavity_ of the _VAGINA_ and _MATRIX_, it ferments immediately with the _Mass of Blood_: This _Fermentation_ swells the _Membranes_ of the TUBES, opens the _Cavity_ of the WOMB, and disposes _All_ perfectly for the right Reception of the _impregnated_ EGG.
FROM hence we may plainly see, in what a miraculous _Order_ and _Manner_, all _These Parts_ minister, and are subservient unto that (yet more) admirable and wonderful _Body_ the WOMB. Which being thus in brief _anatomically_ described, I come next in Course to
CHAP. VI. _Of the Internal Parts of GENERATION._
IN discoursing of _These_, I shall begin with the chief _Part_, to which the rest are but _Subservients_.
_FIRST_ then, the _MATRIX_ or _Womb_, is situated in the upper Part of the Cavity of the _PELVIS_, or _Bason_, between the _Bladder_ and _Streight Gut_. It is placed there in the Middle of the _HYPOGASTRIUM_, for the Convenience of COPULATION, and the more easy and ready _Extrusion_ of the INFANT.
_SECONDLY_, The _Bones_ of the _PELVIS_ (as described hereafter below) stand as a _Rampart_, fencing it against all external _Injuries_; That is to say, the _OS PUBIS_ protects it _before_; the _SACRUM behind_; and the _ILIUM_ on _each Side_: Like as the _BLADDER_ and _RECTUM_ on the other Hand defend this Noble _Part_ again from the _Rigidity_ of these BONES.
_THIRDLY_, the _Figure_ of the WOMB, from its internal _Orifice_ to its Bottom, in a _Natural State_, resembles a large compress’d _PEAR_. Its _Length_ is about three Inches; its _Breadth_ two in the _Hinder_, and one in the _Fore-Part_; its _Thickness_ half an Inch large: But I take the _Dimensions_ of it, in general, to differ accord-to the _Age_ and _Constitution_ of the BODY.