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ined every morning and afternoon and aborted embryos or pla- 

 centae are generally located, yet instances do occur of early 

 abortion possibly during the night in which no trace of the 

 aborted material is found, since the female very quickly attempts 

 to eat the aborted products. 



Fig. 6 On the right a normal 19-mm. embryo taken from the right horn of 

 the uterus of an alcoholic female. The left horn of the uterus contained the 

 degenerating mass shown on the left which was attached to a small placenta 

 and represents an embryo in the process of being absorbed in utero. The mother 

 had an alcoholized father. 



During the two years which supply the data for the present 

 study the females have been very carefully and consistently 

 examined throughout their pregnancies, and the records of ab- 

 sorbed and premature or aborted young are very accurate for all 



