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benta ; I obferved that it was covered 

 with the outer chorion ; and fome arteries 

 broke off from the Womb adhered to it ; 

 but were taken away without laceration. 



Most of the apertures commonly call- 

 ed jf?'?^/, tvere full of the green irijedHdn ; 

 and fome few of them had a very little of 

 the vermilion in them. The internal 

 membrane of the uteriis was extended 

 over p'jirt 6£ each of their orifices, and 



there formed a' fort of valve. Some of 



irhefe orifices were fo large, as to have al- 

 lt>wed one's little finger to haVe been put 

 into them ; while otheil"s were fo fniall, 

 as fcarce to admit the point of a probe i 

 And there were of all the difFe'rerit fize^ 

 between thefe.-^ — ^-The veins contiliuect 

 from them were of a confiderjible diame- 

 ter*, btit not fo large as the finufes thend- 

 ielves, 



Th e extravafation having made the 

 contiguous fiirfaceS of the placenta and 

 womb of my fubjed lefs diftin6l tha:n I 

 could have wifl^ed j I drew fmall figures' 

 of thefe parts from Albinus's elegant 

 larg^ original ones. Fig^ 4. of Tab. vi; 



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