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tember she went a week over her time. The patient is an 
intelligent and truthful person and you can rely on her state- 
ments.”’ 
The ovum appears to be perfect and normal, being covered 
with the normal number of villi. The embryo within ap- 
peared normal and of the two weeks’ stage. In reflecting 
over the specimen, I have concluded that its brain is too small, 
Fic. 12b.—Diagrammatic reconstruction of half the ovum with the embryo 
attached. % 10 times. The villi are drawn upon the upper half of 
the diagram only. Coe, ceelom; uv, umbilical vesicle; all, allantois; 
mp, medullary plate. 
the central canal too wide open, and the optic vesicles too 
atrophic to be normal. The spinal cord is also too wide open 
behind. The embryo could be viewed as normal with the ex- 
ception of the spina bifida in the lower part of the cord and 
the anencephaly in the anterior. 
