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lower’ than its top: and Ve/alius *, Nortwyk +e 
and others, have obferved, that the further 
‘advanced the woman is in her pregnancy, th 
* 
lower they defcend. 
_ Tue uterus, by impregnation, ma may be for-: 
ced into different fhapes. My figure and that } 
of Bidloo, which refemble.each other greatly, _ 
fhew, that one fide of the womb. may be 
raifed much higher than the other. Vater 
and Albinus, have painted the wzerus as oval ; 
and Nortwyk has reprefented it flat at tons 
but, as all thefe three Gentlemen’s figures 
were done from wombs which were previonf- 
ly taken out of the body, we can form no 
judgment of the fhape of the womb from’ 
their draughts; becaufe when the aferus is 
taken out of the body, it affumes a different 
_fhape, according to the manner in which it 
_islaid down. In Mr Hunter’s elegant figure, 
_ which was taken from the uterus in fitu, the 
_ womb is more oblong thanin mine. And in 
_ two other pregnant women I faw difleGted, 
y the one feven, and the other four months” 
gone with child ; the wferus was in both more 4 
globular 
ib. 5. cap. 17. —_ - 
Hitt, Uterij"pars 2. §77.p.70. 
