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with those of the uterus. A similar opinion has 

 been maintained by Vieussens ; Memoires de Va- 

 cademie de cJiirurgie de Paris, an. 1778 ; by Hal- 

 ler, Klenif jjhisiolos^iae, T. viii. lib. 19? sect, iii, 

 ^ XXXIV ; by Denis, see Treivy chylos. foet., 

 2). 18 ; by Merij, Hist, de Pacad. roijale des scien- 

 ces, I7O8? 2^.45, by Bonnet, Sepidcretum anatomi- 

 ciiin, torn. iii. lib. S, sect. XXXIX, observ. i, no, 

 5 ; by Ueister, Comjjend. anatom., torn, u, jj. 86, 



Tliey relate several cases of pregnant women 

 ■who died of uterine hemorrhage, and whose fetuses 

 had no blood in their vessels. Mercury injected into 

 the vessels of the uterus penetrates those of the fe- 

 tus inclosed by this organ. 



Cowper has observed the same in his Anatomy 

 of the human body ; Oxford, lQ98,foL torn. 54; 

 Dracke, Jlnthropologia, edit. 3, Londini, 17^7? 8°. 

 vol. ii. cap. vii, p. 234 ; Vieussens, JSToviun vasorum 

 systema ; Amstelodami, 1705, p. 25 ; Verheyen, 

 anatomia, lib. i, cap. xxv, p. Si. 



The injections of coloured wax into the ves- 

 sels of the fetus, when those of the mother were 

 injected, as is related by J\''ootwyck, Uteri humani 

 anatom., p. H; Hummel, see Stacklin. TJiesau. 

 anat. ed. diss. ch. ; Haller, p. 751 ; by Graaf 

 Opera, Amsteto. 8°. cajJ. xxv, p. S96 ; by Vogli, 

 Anthropogenie ; Bononiae, 1718, 4°. P. II, p. 162 ; 

 by HoeUing, Dissert, de officio obstetricantiu m in 

 partii naturali, Argentorati, 17c \ p. 16; hy Al- 

 binus, Jlnotat. academ*; Leidae, 1754, 4^ lib.i, 

 cap. X, p. 35 ; by Mekel, see Beaudelocque,^ An- 



