PHYSICAL AND LITERARY. 4^.r 



without any dircernlble tearing of fibres, 

 Crofs incifions were then made into this 

 outer covering of the ovum, and it was 

 laid to a fide, when we faw the feconcj 

 lamella or clear tranfparent proper cho- 

 rion, which feparated almoll of itfelf 

 from the outer membrane ; they being 

 only connedled together by a very fine 

 and tender cellular fubftance. This in- 

 ternal lamella or proper chorion being cut 

 through, the fine amnios appeared, thro' 

 which was feen the foetus fwimming in 

 its waters. 



In Tab. v'l.fig. r. are reprefented AAA, 

 the edges of the cut uterus, with large ob- 

 long orifices of the cut empty collapfed 

 veins, and of the fmaller round injeded 

 arteiies ; — B, the forepart of the uterus 

 iturned down between the thighs ; — CC, 

 part of the outer lamina of the chorion; — r- 

 DD, part of the inner lamina of the cho- 

 rion ;- — E, the amnios unopened, through 

 "which is feen the fcetus in its waters. 



Th e membranes being all cut through, 

 and the waters let out, we more plainly 

 obferved, as in Tab. v. fig. j. the foetu?; 



. A,- 



