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to adhere to this villous membrane. In 

 this manner, this outer lamella of the cho- 

 rion was every where feparated from the 

 forepart of the uterus, which was cut 

 through with a pair of fciflars all around 

 its fundus and edges, as low down as the 

 oJJ'a pubis ^ and was turned down over thefe 

 bones. 



The uterus was, as near as T could 

 judge,, about the fthicknefs of an unim- 

 pregnated one: Some of the gentlemen 

 who were prefent at the difTeclion thought 

 at was thicker, and others, that it was 

 thinner. 



The fubflance of the womb was com- 

 pofed of its firm flrong outer membrane 

 which is a continuation of the peritone- 

 um , this adhered by a cellular membrane, 

 through which a number of arteries ran, 

 to a red coloured fubftance, which was a- 

 bout one half the thlcknefs of the womb, 

 and had a mufcular appearance ; but I 

 could not obferve in it any real mufcular 

 fibres, laid in regular flrata. — Within this 

 there was a whiter coloured fubftance, 

 which, on ftretching, appeared plainly 



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