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mattress on which the mother was lying. In one of these clots, 

 the eminent histologist of the faculty of medicine, Dr. Valentin 

 Castanedo, discovered a placental cotyledon, which was shown 

 in the preparation presented to the ' Sociedad Poey." It is 

 regrettable that we have not been able to obtain the placenta 

 in this case, as very little is known concerning the placentae 

 of the anthropoid apes. 



(The author here quotes a statement from Madame Louise 

 Toussaint 3 regarding the custom among apes of eating part 

 of the placenta after parturition, and then severing the umbili- 

 cal cord.) 



Bouchacourt 4 emphasizes the fact that all animals after par- 

 turition eat their placentae, just as the birds eat the shells of 

 the eggs after the hatching of the young. 



We are, therefore, led to believe that Cucusa ate the pla- 

 centa, as all other apes (monkeys) have done which have given 

 birth to young in the park of the " Quinta Palatine" 



During the first two days after parturition, Cucusa, some- 

 what fatigued, often lay down on her back. She lost very 

 little blood. From the third day, she could easily climb to 

 the board which was fastened high above her bed and which 

 served as a resting place. Lactation began on the second day. 

 Sixteen days after birth, that is, on the 13th of May, there was 

 a normal return of catamenia with an abundant flow for twenty- 

 four hours, but without external genital turgency. 



The umbilical cord, dry and flattened, continued to adhere 

 to Anuma for approximately thirty-six hours after birth. We 

 took care to preserve it and find that it measures 70 centimeters. 

 Through the examination of Dr. V. Castanedo we have learned 

 that it contains the normal human constituents. 



When Anuma was two months old four incisors appeared, 

 two in the upper jaw and two in the lower jaw. During the 

 third month the remaining incisors developed and, during the 

 fourth month, four molars followed. 



Anuma is at present six months old and measures in height 

 53 centimeters. The circumference of the head is 33 centi- 

 meters and the thoracic perimeter is 37 centimeters. 



3 Toussaint, Louise. Causeries d'une accoucheuse. Paris, 1910. 

 4 Carnot, Dr. Paul. Opoterapia. Paris, 1911. 



