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air, water, or quick-filver, to enter it from 

 the bladder ; though I have feen it perr 

 yious for an inch or more in children 

 born at the full time. 



The cervix uteri being now cut open, 

 the whole inner fide of it was covered o- 

 yer, efpecially near to the os tinc£y witl> 

 (cluft.ers of veficles, fome of which were of 

 a conliderable fize, filled with a dark 

 brown-coloured mucus ; and fmall orifi- 

 ces, containing the fame |dnd of liquor, 

 appeared in their interflices. 



When the placenta was taken ofi^, the 

 injeiftion, which had been thrown into 

 the hypogaflric arteries, was found ex- 

 travafated betwixt it and the uterus j 

 many lumps of the wax being, as it were, 

 wedged into the fubftance of the placenta, 

 without having entered any of its vefTels. 

 We then faw many fmall ferpentine 

 arteries with their orifices opening upon 

 the internal membrane of the uterus ; 

 and other, generally larger, convoluted 

 arteries, whole extremities we could not 

 as yet obferve, appearing prominent ip. 

 the interflices ofcavities filled with the wax; 



and 



