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their tranfverfe fecllons in their collapfed 

 ftate, as reprefented in the cut edges of the 

 womb ; fee tab. v. and vi. and by the fize 

 of the fpermatic veins, in Tab. vii. fig. 5. 

 I ought however to obferve, that the 

 trunk of the vein is here reprefented lefs 

 than it fhould have been ; for, when the 

 womb was cut out of the body, fome of 

 the injecflion was, by accident, puflied out 

 of the veins before the figure was made. 

 The fituation of this vein and artery may- 

 let us fee how eafily Arantius * and o- 

 ther anatomifls, before the injecting art 

 WAS found out, might imagine the artery 

 entered into the vein ; that the arterious 

 I and venous blood might be blended to- 

 gether before they reached the womb. 

 Injeflions plainly jDtiew, there is no fuch 

 uncommon anaftomofis between the vein 

 and artery. 



Th e womb, by being diftended, pref- 

 fes on the iliac veins, and makes a diffi- 

 culty to the blood returning from the 

 lower extremities, and even to the blood 

 returning by the branches of the iliac, 



from 



* Arancius de fcetu, cap. ii:. p. 7. 



