132 NOTES TO THE 



leitin\^ ziir Enthlndumgskunstf 1, B. aus d.franz 

 vbeersets von ; by F. Melcel, Leipsi^, 1782, 8°. p, 

 llij, not. 3 and 4 ; and by Locler, see JMiiller, 

 Dissert, genital, sex. seq. ovi. niitrit. foetus, atque 

 nexus inter placentam et uterum histor. Jena 17&0j 

 § 11, p. Sj. 



One could hardly doubt of this iutimate con- 

 nexion between the vessels of the uterus and those 

 of the fetus, if the efforts of anatomists, even less 

 celebrated than these, had been requisite to deter- 

 mine the question with precision and certainty. 



Riiisch, Opera anatom. medic, chirurg. ; Am- 

 stelod. 4 . V. i — iv. Monro, see Med. Essays of a 

 society of physicians at Edinburgh, vol. ii, art. IS, 

 §. XVI; R)ederer,de Utero gravido,p.25 ; Hun- 

 ter, GuUelmo, anatomia uteri gravidi tahulis il- 

 lustrata ; Birmingliamiae et Londini, 177 1, fol» 

 tab. xxiv ; Wrisher g, Exjjerim.et observ. anatom, 

 de iitero gravida ; Gottingae, 1782, 4°. p. 40 ; Ob- 

 servat. ds structura ovi et secundinarum humana- 

 ram in partes matur. etc. ihid. 17*>-5? 'l*'^* ^ XXI, 

 have in vain attempted to inject and propel the 

 fiiiids of tlie vessels of the uterus into those of the 

 placenta, and still less from the placenta into the 

 vessels of the uterus ; the question might not have 

 been yet settled, if Dessault and after him Reuss, 

 J^uvae quaedam ohservationes circa structuram va- 

 surum in placenta humana, et peculiarem hujus 

 cum utero nexum ; Tubingae, 1784, 4°. p, 44, had 

 not discovered some valves in the extremity of th« 



