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was diftended lower down than is reprefented 
in your Tas. 5. fig. 3. which poffibly might 
- be owing tothis woman’s weaknefs, and to 
the number of children which the had born. 
A liquor, of a thicker confiftence than 
the oil of turpentine and vermillion which 
my brother made ufe of, being injected into 
the Aypogafiric arteries, filled the {permatics, 
and a confiderable artery in the round ligament. 
The joining of the trunks of the two former 
upon the fides of the uwferus was fo large, that 
it was impoffible to fay, from which of them 
the branches diftributed to its fubftance were 
derived. The right {permatic was fmall, but 
the left was as large as a goofe-quill; the 
hypogaftrics being of a middle fize betwixt 
the two.—By blowing air into any of the 
veins, we had fufficient proof of their mon- 
ftrous fize, and of their numerous and very 
large communications; the whole wterus be- 
ing at once inflated—Correfponding to the 
artery before mentioned in the round liga- 
ment, 1 obferved a large vein in it, which pro- 
bably difcharged itfelf into the external iliac. 
~Wuaen the wterus was cut open upon its 
fore part, near three fourths of its thicknefs 
had plainly the appearance of a mufcle; the 
fibres 
