4^4 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



to be feen upon its inner fide, without diG- 

 fe(5lion. 



The placenta and foetus were fituated 

 nearly in the lame manner as is reprefcnt- 

 ed by Bidloo ; a Imall flietch of whofe 

 figure is in your Tab. vi. fig. 2. : Though 

 poflibly the fituation of the foetus might 

 have been altered, by our having carried 

 the uterus above half a mile before we 

 examined it- 



The liquor amttii was of a clear brown 

 colour ; upon adding oil of vitriol, or ok 

 tart. p. d. to it, no remarkable change 

 could be obferved : Which proves that it 

 contains little ferous or urinous ; for the 

 oil of vitriol would have coagulated the 

 former, and the latter would have betray^ 

 ed itfelf upon the addition of the fixed al- 

 cali. — —When it was brought to a boil- 

 ing heat, it threw up a thin whitifli fcum ; 

 and an ounce of it boiled dry, left about 

 a fcruple of what appeared to be a ferqus 

 coagulum. 



We could not obferve any thing like 

 an allantois : And, when the urachus was 

 afterwards examined, it neither allowed 



air. 



