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p. d. to it, noremarakble change could be ob- 
ferved: which proves that it contains little 
ferous or urinous; for the oi/ of vitriol would 
have coagulated the former, and the latter 
would have betrayed itfelf upon the addition 
of the fixed alcali. When it was brought 
to a boiling heat, it threw up a thin whitifh 
fcum ; and an ounce of it boiled dry, left a- 
bout a fcruple of what appeared to be a fe- 
rous coagulum. 
WE could not obferve any thing like an 
allantois: and, when the wrachus was after- 
wards examined, it neither allowed air, wa- 
ter, or quick-filver, to enter it from the blad- 
der ; the’ I have feen it pervious for an inch 
or more in children, born at the full time. 
‘THE cervix uteri being now cut open ; the 
whole inner fide of it was covered over, efpe- 
cially near to the os tince, with clufters of 
veficles, fome of which were of a confide- 
table fize, filled with a dark brown-coloured 
mucus ; and fmall orifices, containing the 
fame kind of liquor, appeared in their in- 
terftices. 
WHEN the placenta was taken off, the in- 
jection, which had been thrown into the hy- 
pogaftric arteries, was found extravafated be- 
twixt 
