482 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



Th e OS tittcac, then feen from the va^- 

 gina, was C9n-(iderably larger, and the 

 aervix uteri was diftended lower down than 

 is reprefented ia your Tab. 5. fig 3. which 

 pofTibly might be owing to this woman's 

 weaknefs and to the number of children 

 which fke had born. 



A liquor, of a thicker conliftence thia^ 

 the oil of turpentine and vermilion, which 

 my brother made ufe of, being injeded 

 into the h)pog?.flric arteries, filled the 

 fpermatics, and a confiderable artery in 

 the round ligament. The joining of the 

 trunks of the two former upon the fides 

 of the uterus was fo large, that it was im* 

 pofiible to fay, from which of them the 

 branches diftributed to its fubllancewere- 

 derived. The right fpermatic w^as fmallj 

 hi;t the left was as large as a gpofe-quill ; 

 the hypogaftrics being of a middle fize 

 betw'xc the two. ——By blowing air into 

 any of fhe veins, we had fufficient proof 

 of their monftrous fize, and of their nu- 

 merous and very large communications; 

 the whole uterus being at once inflated* 



■• Correfponding to the artery before 



men- 



