AND FAMILY DISPENSATORY. on 
from the number of thefe knots midwives pretend to foretel how many children a 
woman fhall have ; but thefe are vain divinations, for there is often more knots in 
the navel of the laft child than of the firft. Itis about five feet and a half or fix” 
feet long, and about the thicknefs of a man’s finger: when it is dry it becomes {mal- 
ler, and is kept as a precious thing to haften the birth im other perfons, The child 
being born, this navel-ftring muft be tied with a ftrong thread wound often about, 
the diftance of two or three inches from the belly of the infant, and about three in- 
ches from the binding it muft be cut off: afterwards the navel is to be carefully | 
looked to till it is dry, and falls off of its own accord. Thefe veifels, after the child 
is born, do, within the abdomen, degenerate into ligaments: the vein toa ligament 
of the liver, and the arteries into lateral ligaments of the bladder, becaufe their ufe 
is now abolifhed, there being no longer any paffage of the mother’s blood. The 
urachus is alittle cord or ligament, by which the bladder is fuftained and faftened to 
to the peritoneum, that, being diftended with urine, its neck might not be compref- 
fed, which thing alfo is done by the arteries. Hence it appears, that the urine of 
a child in the womb is certainly voided by its yard into the membrane amnios, 
(whence it is that it is fo full of water,) a great part of it yet remaining in the blad- 
der, which is the caufe that always new-born children are for the firft days continu- 
ally making water. If the urine were-not in part thus voided, the bladder would 
not only be over-f{tretched, but broken. | a ria 
To illuftrate what has been faid, the annexed plate exhibits the kidneys, bladder, 
and organs of generation, of the human fpecies, both male and female, Fig. 1. 
reprefents the male, A. A. are the kidneys; B. B. the glandule fuccenturiate ; 
C. C. the emulgent veffels, together with thofe diftributed over the membranes of 
the kidneys; D. D. the hypogaftric veffels, which, branching of from the iliacs, 
are diftributed in the urinary bladder and penis; E. E. the courfe of the ureters; 
F. F. the courfe of the fpermatic veffels, in which’ feveral appear cut off, being 
- thofe diftributed in the peritoneum; G. the urinary bladder; H. H. 
- rentia; I. I. the tefticles; K. the urachus cut of as = 
Sai Ve Miche -etetagh taictess Mee 4 ee so ae 
> Fig. 2, reprefents the female; in which A. B. denotes the capfule atribiliaria; 
~_ €.C. the kidneys; D. D. right emulgent veins: E. E. right emulgent arteries 5 : 
FF vena cava, divided into the iliac branches 5 G. left emulgent veins 1. Jef 
_emulgent arteries; I. I. right fpermatic veins K. right fpermaté Snsty 5 Ailes: 
= fpermatic artery; M. left fpermatic vein 5 N. N. aorta, divided into tts iliac 
ches: O. O. womens tefticles; P. P. a part of the broad ligament, or bat’s wing: 
ie re Oe st g bottom of the womb, fhews 
~~ -* 0.0. the ypets of the womb on both fides; R.R. ret aes 
