AND FAMILY DISPENSATORY. * @a7 
__». Yated pores of the membranula of the ovum, now become glandulous, is'there retain. 
.,ed, nourifhed, dilated, grows to its umbilicus, or navel ; ftifles the other lefs lively 
+ animalcules; and thus is conception effected. 5 , 
The egg in the ovarium of a woman, when impregnated with the male feed, may 
_..be compared to the fmall round white {pot of the fize of a {mall pea on the yolk of 
. ~ awhen’s egg; in which {mall part, if it is impregnated, the chicken begins to form, 
-and which js commonly called the tread; though ’this part is always to be found in 
the eggs of thofe hens that have not cohabited with the cock, but fmaller, and 
. thefe, not having received the male feed, produce no chickens. Therefore fince an 
nated, it is difcharged from the womb, without any further growth, The firlt 
.thing that appears of a foetus, 
-external coat of the egg: about ime th 
vifible; and a little after the cerebrum and cere , 
“deror next,, he eyes Mundt prominent in’ thie Aes then hd pantiuss Geaey'ss 
pulfation of the heart, is plainly fen. The extremities difcover themfelves Jaft 
of all. ‘The formation of the bones in a foetus is very gradual and regularly per- 
formed, In the fife two months there ie nothing of-e bony nanare in the whole 
after this, the hardnefs of the parts where the principal bones are £0 ns oe aflifica- 
comes by degrees perceptible. Dr. Kerkring defcribes the progrels siatsheiahe 
tion from fkeletons which he had prepared from feetufes of a een 
Up to nine. In the firft two months, or till the end of that agit aie . ne Soctil 
any thing bony; afver this, in the third and fourth monet, #0, oo ing 
Parts, one after another, acquire their Bony RITES» | a stniprate into cate 
is membranous, where the bones are to be; thefe by degrees i bones hconleleee ame 
tilages ; and from thefe, b by fack flow, though fuch.cer~, 
_ are by degrees formed. All « doing, though it ealily § es 
tain, progteffions, that the niceft 
when done. . | 
Though the ftate of pregnancy is not 
complaints which merit great attention, 
a difeate, yet i : 
ancboften require the ® ek 5 Babee 
