47^ ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



happens to be contiguous to, where it 

 Caufes a coniiderable flow of liquors, by 

 the abforbing powers of its veffels ; in 

 Xhe fame way as the fucking of the nipple 

 is the mofl: effecflual way of cauling a flow 

 of milk to the breafts. Thus the part of 

 the human womb where the placenta is 

 applied has its extreme veins enlarged 

 into finufes : And the fmooth furface of 

 the womb and its cornua in cows is rai- 

 fed into giandular-like bodies where each 

 placenta is placed. 



Though the contrivance of the blood 

 returning from the foetus being poured 

 into finufes, is a very good precaution a- 

 gainft haemorrhagies ; yet the veins of 

 the womb that communicate with thofe 

 finufes being fo large as they are, abne 

 would think, that ipore frequent haeiiEXor- 

 rhagies might happen at delivery, \vas ic 

 not for the oblique manner in which the 

 mofl internal coats of the womb are pla- 

 ced by way of valves over the orihces of 

 thefe fmufes ; fo that whenever the womb 

 collapfes cr contrads, thefe orifices are 



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