ABSTRACT
The subject of generation is not only interesting as a branch of science, but it is so connected with the happiness of mankind that it is highly important in a practical point of view. Properly connected with the subject of generation, are the signs of pregnancy. Dr. Dewees remarks that experience furnishes no certain mark by which the moment conception takes place is to be distinguished. People generally, as it was the case with physicians until late years, entertain a very erroneous idea of what takes place in the process of conception. The adipose or fatty matter, immediately over the share bone, forms a considerable prominence in females, which, at the age of puberty, is covered with hair, as in males. This prominence is called Mons Veneris. The internal organs of generation consist, in the female, of the Vagina, the Uterus, the Ovaries and their appendages.
