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wise, however, that the horn in which the foetus is lodged is 

 larger than the other. 



The conception or ovum is single, Avhether one or several 

 embryos are evolved from it; and it extends, as already said, 

 into both of the horns, so that it presents itself with the shape 

 of a double pudding, or rather of a single pudding having a 

 constriction in its middle. Proceeding rounded and slender 

 from the upper extremity of one of the horns, the conception 

 gradually enlarges, and is produced into that common cavity 

 which in the human female is called the uterus or matrix ; 

 (because, by conceiving and cherishing her offspring in this 

 place the woman is made a mother ;) the conception of the 

 deer, passing through a kind of isthmus in the body of the 

 uterus, is narrowed; but by and by, escaping into the other 

 cornu, it there expands at first, but anon contracts again, and 

 finally ends as it began in a tapering extremity. The whole 

 conception, therefore, taken out entire, resembles a wallet filled 

 with water on either side ; and hence the chorion is also called 

 allantois, because the conception in the lower animals, such as 

 the deer, looks like an intestine inflated, or stuffed and tied in 

 the middle. 



In the embryo anatomized at this period every internal part 

 is seen distinct and perfect; particularly the stomach, intes- 

 tines, heart, kidneys, and lungs, which, divided into lobes, but 

 having the proper form of the organs, look bloody. The colour 

 of the lungs is deeper than it is in those foetuses that have 

 breathed, because the lungs, dilated by the act of respiration, 

 assume a whiter tint. And by this indication is it known 

 whether a mother has brought forth a living or dead child ; in 

 the former case the colour of the lungs is changed, and the 

 change remains though the infant have died immediately after- 

 wards. 



In the female foetus the testes improperly so called are 

 seen situated near the kidneys at the extremities of the cornua 

 uteri on either side ; they are relatively of larger size than in 

 the adult, and, like the caruncles of the uterus, look white. 



In the stomach of the foetus there is a watery fluid contained, 

 not unlike that in which it swims, but somewhat more turbid 

 or less transparent. It resembles the milk that begins to be 

 secreted in the breasts of pregnant women about the fourth or 



