412 ESSAYS asp OBSERVATIONS | 
Most of the apertures commonly called 
finujes, were full of the green injeGtion; and 
fome few of them had a very little of the 
vermilion in them. The internal membrane 
of the wferus was extended over part of each 
of their orifices, and there formed a fort of 
valve.—Some of thefe orifices were fo large, 
as to have allowed one’s little finger to have 
been put into them; while others were fo 
fmall, as {carce to admit the point of a probe: 
and there were of all the different fizes be- 
tween thefe. — The veins continued from 
them were of a confiderable diameter; but 
not fo large as the /mufes. themfelves. 
Tue extravafation having made the conti- 
guous furfaces of the placenta and womb of 
my fubject lefs diftiné than I could have 
wifhed; I drew fmall figures of thefe parts, 
from Albinus’s elegant large original ones. 
Fig. 4. of Tas. vi. is the placenta, exhibited 
with its furface contiguous to the wrerus in 
view ; wheré the engraver has not done ju- 
ftice, in reprefenting the monticuli and fulci 
of the placenta. 
Fig. 5. 1s better copied, where the oviform 
figure of the werus of his fubje@, ftrikes the 
eye, with the orifices of the cut vefiels in its 
fubftance, 
