4zo ESSAYS ann OBSERVATIONS 
and which I {aw likewife, in this fubject, on 
the inner furface of the womb, are not to 
be obferved in any other organ of the ae 
fo far as I remember. 
NoruineG remarkable was obferved in the 
membranes of the ovum, more than what ts 
mentioned by the accurate anatomifts A/linus 
and Haller: but Mr Hunter obferved a num- 
ber of veins going from the wzerus in conti- 
nued trunks, into the fubftance of the outer 
lamella of the chorion, in a pregnant woman 
he diffected, and whofe veins he had previ- 
cufly injected with yellow wax: thefe he has 
delineated in one of his figures, which will 
foon be publifhed. We could obferve none 
of them in our fubject; but then, all the 
forepart of the uterus was feparated from the 
outer /amella of the chorion, before the veins 
were injected. Tho’ Mr Hunter obferved 
veins, he could not fee one artery continued 
from the womb to the chorion ; and the arte- 
ries of the wterus had been filled with injecti- 
on, as well as the veins. 
In five of the fubje&s mentioned by my 
father, in Medical Effays*, two of which I 
faw, the placenta adhered to the forepart of 
. the 
* Vol. a. Art. 9. 
