426 ESSAYS ann OBSERVATIONS 
ART. XVIII. 
Additional Obfervations on Gravid Uteri, dy 
ALEXANDER Monro, Student of Medicine 
in the Univerfity of Edinburgh. 
GENTLEMEN, 
AVING wrote to my brother a few 
obfervations which I had made in exa- 
mining a gravid uterus ; he defires me to add 
fuch of them, as I thought might be a pro- 
per fupplement to the paper which he fent 
you lately on this fubject. Fs 
THE woman I diflected was about forty 
years of age, had born four children, and 
was faid to be five months gone with child; 
her wterus being almoft as large as in my bro- 
ther’s fubject, tho’ more of an oval fhape, 
with the forepart of it contiguous to the per7- 
toncum. | : 
Havine obferved fo far haftily, I was o- 
bliged to remove it from the body. / 
Tue os tincae, then feen from the vagina, 
was confiderably larger, and the cervix uteri 
was 
