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tho’ in private converfation with this laft 
named gentleman, when J was his fcholar 
at Gottingen, he ‘told me, that, what he had 
wrote concerning that fubject, was upon the 
authority of others, and not from his own 
obfervation; for that he had had three wo- 
men with child for fubjets, whofe bodies 
he had injected and diflected; but had found 
nothing like an ana/lomo/is between the uterine 
and fecundary veflels in any of them: fo that 
he now believed there was no {uch anaflomofis 
as was alledged. 
I opened the body of this woman; and, 
at firft, imagined we had been miftaken a- 
bout her being with child; for the inteftines 
came as low down as the offa pubis, and co- 
vered intirely the wferus: but, in turning 
up the inteftines, we were foon undeceived, 
and faw the diftended womb. I then laid 
bare the defcending aorta; and, having fix- 
ed a large pipe of a fyringe into it, and 
warmed the wferus well, by pouring warm 
water upon it, and by keeping afterwards 
applied to it fpunges filled with the fame; I 
injected hot oil of turpentine, coloured with 
very fine powder of vermillion, into the 
aorta: and, after that, a coarfer injeétion 
of 
