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the cellular fubftance both of the placenta 

 and womb. 



Su CH ferpentine convoluted very fmall 

 arteries, which Dr Albinus has taken no- 

 tice of, and which I faw likewife, in this 

 fubjecl, on the inner furface of the womb, 

 are not to be obferved in any other organ 

 of the body, fo far as I remember. 



Nothing remarkable was obferved in 

 the membranes of the ovum, more than 

 what is mentioned by the accurate anato- 

 mifts Albinus and Haller : But Mr Hun- 

 ter obferved a number of veins going 

 from the uterus in continued trunks, into 

 the fubftance of. the- outer lamella of the 

 chorion, in a pregnant woman he diffefl- 

 ed, and whofe veins he had previoufly in- 

 J€(5led with yellow wax : Thefe he has de- 

 lineated in one of his figures, which will 

 foon be publillied. We could obferve 

 none of them in our fubje6t ; but then, 

 all the forepart of the uterus was fepa- 

 rated from the outer lamella of the cho- 

 rion, before; the veins were injedled. Tho* 

 IVlr Hunter obferved veins, he could not 

 fee one artery continued from the womb 



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