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which the internal parts are covered: they’are conftituted to the commion teyuments 
of the body, and a great deal of fpungious fat: the “lower joinings’ of thelé lips is 
in virgins fomewhat ftraight; and feem of a ligamentous fubftance for firmnels, but 
in marriéd women it is loofe, and in fuch as have kad a child fill loofer. The Soffa 
or rima magna, begins at the os pubis, and is not much above an inch diftant from 
the anus, which being much larger than the inher chink; or cavity of the neck of 
the womb, this is feen as foon as ever the lips are drawn afide: in this folfa the lips 
being opened, two: holes appear, (but fcarcely vifible,) our of which’ a’ Whititt or. 
wheyifh juice iffues. In this foffa, are alfo two collateral chinks, the right and left, 
which are between the lipsand the wings. ‘The pubes, called alfo mmonticul’ conor. S, 
in the part where the hair grows, and is properly termed the privity ; being longith 
hillocks, foft, and of a fubftance the like whereof is ‘not to be’ found again in the 
‘whole body, being partly fkin, partly fpungy fleth, placed upon a portion of hard far. 
~The membranes infolding the child in the womb, are the firtt things which are 
bred in the womb after:conception, to defend the more excellent part of the feed: 
their efficient caufe is theformative faculty, joined with the heat of the wonib: thefe 
ia human kind are in number only two, viz. the amnins and the chorion, co which latter 
belongs the placenta or womb-cake.’ All thefe together make that which we call 
fecundine, or after-birth. Teds {0 called, becaufe it is the Second habitation of the 
child next the womb ; and alfo becaufe it comes away by a fecond birth, afterthe child 
OF firlt birth. « Aamios (from its fofenets and thinnefs) is the firft membrane, it is the 
thinnett of the tunicles; white, foft, tranfparent, and furnithed with fome few fmall 
Veins and arteries, which are difperfed within its foldings. Tecompaffes the child ini. 
mediately, and cleaves almoft every where to the chorion, efpecially at the ends ; and 
4s united in the middle thereof, about the placenta, where the vafa umbilicalia come 
_ forth, but it is eafily feparated from the chorion. Tecontains within it ‘plenty of 
humidity and humours, in whieh the child does as it were fwim, that fo, 1. the child 
Roating therein, may be the higher, and lefs burthenfome to the mother. 2. That 
membranes being broke, and this humour running out at time of birth, makes the 
child’s way, through theneck of the womb, fmooth, flippery, 3 andeafy. baton mo 
“thus falling, is what midwives call the breaking Of thewater. Part of the “amnigs 
does now and then hang about the Head of ‘the child, and then the infant is. fi 
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be born with a caul: fometake this fora prefageof good, fome of evil, fore of fhort Bee. 
orion is the fecond membr ‘andi compafies the child “Hike Sean sg ‘ 
