The whele of the posterior aspect, the fundus and the three upper fourths of the anterior as pect of the uterus are invested with a peritoneal coat. The os uteri, which projects into the va gina, the lower fourth of the anterior aspect, which is in immediate contact with the bladder, and the little lateral linear spaces where the broad ligaments are attached, are destitute of it.
The peritoneum reaches the vagina behind the uterus, and invests a small portion of it in that situation, but does not come into relation with it in front of the uterus.
The ovary is very closely and completely surrounded with peritoneum, which reaches it at its attachment to the broad ligament; we must in this case as heretofore describe a little linear space, at the point of attachment, as des titute of peritoneal vestiture.
'De bladder is covered by peritoneum over a different extent in the two sexes. In both male and female its anterior asitect is destitute of peritoneal covering ; and its fundus, in both sexes, has a peritoneal investment equally com plete : with regard to the posterior aspect, however, in the male, the peritoneum covers it often as far down as the prostate, whilst it leaves uncovered a large portion of the lower part of this aspect of the bladder in the female.
The parietal portion of the peritoneum in vests the anterior and lateral abdominol walls completely, except at the lower part, where it is borne off front the anterior walls by the bladder and along the linear attachment of the falciform lig,ament of the liver ; the under ruzjiice of the diaphragm, except between the layers of the coronary ligament of the liver, and along the linear attachments to it of the falci form and triangular hepatic ligaments, the phrenico-gastric ligament, and the splenic omentum ; the posterior parietes, except where the viscera, ducts, and vessels enumerated above as invested with the peritoneum on their front only, intervene. It does not, however, reach the ilferior abdominal parietes, that is to say the levator ani, at any point, a quantity of loose cellular tissue occupying the interspaces of the pelvic viscera between that muscle and the lowest point to which the peritoneum extends.
We now come to the last of our propositions.