4s^ ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



dines, if there were any fuch, as Nort- 

 wyk ♦ affirms there are, and Haller, in 

 his Prm.e L:nca J, feenis to alledge ; 

 though in private converfation with this 

 ]aft named gentleman, when I was his 

 fcholar at Gottingen, he told me, that what 

 he had wrote concerning that fubjedl was 

 upon the authority of others, and not 

 from his own obfervation ; for that he 

 had had three women with child for fub- 

 jeds, whofe bodies he had injeded and 

 difTecTied ; but had found nothing like an 

 anaftomofis between the uterine and fe- 

 cundary' vefTels in any of them ; fo that 

 he now believed there was no fuch ana- 

 flomofis as was alledged. 



I opened the body of this woman ; 

 and, at firft, imagined we had been rail- 

 taken about her being with child ; for 

 the inteftines came as low down as the 

 ojfa pubis, and covered intirely the uterus : 

 But, in turning up the inteftines, we 

 were foon undeceived, and faw the di- 



ftended womb. -I then laid bare the 



de- 



* Hift. uteri human, p. I. § 7. and p. 2. § 83. 

 t§830. 



