PHYSICAL AND LITER ARY.483 



mentioned in the round ligament, I ob- 

 ferved a large vein in it, which proba- 

 bly difcharged itfelf into the external 

 iliac. 



When the uterus was cut open upon 

 its fore part, near three fourths of its 

 thickneft had plainly the appearance of a 

 anufcle ; the fibres being of a pale red or 

 ilefh-colour^ And, when part oi it was 

 boiled in water, we could not have diftin- 

 guiflied it from any other pi€<:e of boiled 

 flefli ; mofl of its fibres then feeimng to 

 run obliquely from the cervix towards 

 the fundus ; others appearing traufverfe. 

 To which if we add the known fenfibility 

 of the womb, and its ftrong and fudden 

 contra<5tion at birth, we have enumerated 

 all the efientials required iri the conltitu-?- 

 tion of a mufcle. 



As the internal cellular, or rather fuc- 

 culent fungous membrane of the womb, 

 efpecially where the placenta is fixed, is 

 of a confiderable thicknefs ; I cannot con- 

 ceive, how any thing like to an orbicular 

 or radiated mufcle could ever be alkdged 



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