4^4 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



a; confiderabis part of the cewix uteri very* 

 little diftended ; and the os tincne B, ap- 

 peared like a fmall rima, befet all around 

 with a glandular ring, which was filled 

 with a thick mucus. 



After this, the upper half of the pla- 

 centa was feparated from the womb, to 

 which it adhered, by a cellular mem- 

 brane of a ftronger appearance than what 

 conne6led the womb to any other part of 

 the ovum. 



ExTRAVASATED injetflion of all the 

 four different kinds, was found between 

 the placenta and uterus ; the greateft part 

 of it, however, was of the vermilion in- 

 jedion, that had been thrown into the 

 defcending aorta. Though the extrava- 

 fated injedlion had made its way into the 

 cellular fubllance both of the uterus and 

 placenta j yet not one fingle vefTel of the 

 placenta was filled with any of the injec- 

 tion that came from the uterus ; nor was 

 a veflel of the womb filled with that 



which came from the fecundines. -In 



fome places where there was none of the 

 extra vafated injedion adhering to the pla- 

 centa. 



