it forward; as the body changes its posture, so will the uterus change
its position by force of gravity.

=Cannot Be Bent Upon Itself.=--The uterus cannot be bent upon itself
without producing injury; neither can it be pushed too far forward or
backward, nor crowded down too far without causing great distress and
actual disease.

=Fallopian Tube.=--Figs. 4 and 5 show that there is given off from each
side of the upper part of the uterus a tube. This is called the
Fallopian tube.

Each tube is about four inches long. Near the uterus its cavity will
just admit an ordinary bristle; but near its free end, at the ovary, it
is as large as a goose-quill.

It is a peculiar tube in that it terminates in a number of fringe-like
processes, one of which is always attached to the ovary itself.

~FIG. 7. Part of an ovary, showing a ripe ovum, or egg, about to be cast
off, as occurs at each menstrual period. It is here this egg may be
fertilized or impregnated by the male elements.~

=Object of This Tube.=--The Fallopian tube conveys the sperm of the male
from the uterus to the ovary, and also takes the germ-cell (or ovule, or
egg) from the ovary to the uterus.

When a ripe egg is about to be discharged from the ovary, one of these
fringe-like processes of the Fallopian tube grasps it and receives it
into the mouth of the tube, whence it is conveyed directly into the
uterine canal.

=Ovary.=--On each side of the uterus and in each side of the pelvic cavity
is an ovary. It is about one and a half inches in length, three-fourths
of an inch in width, and one-third of an inch in thickness. It weighs
from one to two drachms, and is an elongated, oval-shaped body.

~FIG. 8. This figure illustrates the course followed by an ovum. The
ripened egg leaves the ovary (1), passes down the Fallopian tube (2),
and thence into the uterine cavity (3).~

~FIG. 9. An exceedingly minute piece of an ovary, highly magnified. It
shows eight ova or eggs.~

=Object of Ovaries.=--The ovaries are the essential organs of generation
in the female. In each ovary are large numbers of cells, ovules, or
eggs, one of which, at least, is supposed to pass into the uterine
cavity with each menstruation. Anatomists tell us that each human ovary
contains as many as 30,000 of these ovules, or eggs.

LOCAL TREATMENT.--FAST PASSING AWAY.

=It Makes One Indignant.=--When I recall the terrible and almost horrible
treatment which women have had to undergo in