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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THB FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS. It will be difficult to describe these organs so that you will easily understand them; and what the description lacks in clearness, you must supply by harder study. The; Womb?Its Function. Your attention will first be invited to the womb. This is the organ in which little babies live and grow until they are large enough and strong enough to live without its protection, when they are born into the world. You will see that the womb must be a large organ to hold a babe that will weigh eight or ten pounds as many of them do when they are first born. And some babies are even heavier. But the wombs of girls and women who have never become mothers, are quite small. It would seem impossible for them to enlarge so much, but Nature is always equal to the work she has to do. And the wombs of women who are healthful and vigorous, will enlarge without difficulty as the little babies inthem need larger homes. But with ladies who lace tightly and otherwise violate the laws of health, the case is often quite different and they frequently suffer severely at this time. WHAT THE WOMB LOOKS LIKE?ITS SHAPE, SIZE AND WEIGHT. The shape of the womb is much like that of a pear, except that it is flattened on two opposite sides. If you should pull the stem out of a soft pear, and then squeeze the pear between your hands until it is considerably flattened, it will be an object almost exactly the shape of the womb. The unim- pregnated womb is from two and a half to three inches long, one and a half to two inches broad at the widest part, and about one inch thick. Its weight is about one and one half ounces. During pregnancy it becomes many times heavier and often weighs no less than two pounds, but it gradually decreases ia size after the babe i...