BOOK XI. Lxxxiii. 208-Lxxxv. 212 



brain or the heart, as there are several kinds of 

 membrane, 



LXXXIV. Women have all the same organs, and Thefemaie 

 in addition, joined to the bladder, a small sac, called '^^'""- 

 from its shape the uterus or womb ; another name 

 for it is ' the parts,' and in the rest of the animals it 

 is called the matrix. This in the viper and the vivi- 

 parous species is double ; in the oviparous ones it is 

 attached to the diaphragm ; and in women it has 

 two recesses on either side of the flanks, and it causes 

 death whenever it is displaced and interferes with 

 the breathing. It is said that cows when pregnant 

 only carry in the right cavity of the womb, even 

 when carrying twins. Sow's paunch is a better dish 

 after a miscarriage than after a successful delivery ; 

 in the former case it is called ' miscarryings ' and in 

 the latter ' farrowings.' That of a sow farrowing 

 for the first time is best, and the contrary with those 

 exhausted with breeding. After farrowing the 

 paunch is a bad colour and lacking in fat, unless the 

 sow was Idlled the same day ; nor is that of young 

 sows thought much of, except from those farrowing 

 for the first time, and the paunch of old sows is 

 preferable provided they are not quite worn out, 

 and not killed on the actual day of farrowing or the 

 day before or the day after. The paunch next 

 best to miscarryings is that of a sow slaughtered the 

 day after farrowing ; also its paps are the best, 

 provided it has not yet suckled the htter ; the paps 

 of a sow that has had a miscarriage are the worst. 

 In old days people called it sow's abdomen before it 

 got hard, as they used not to slaughter sows when they 

 were with young. 



LXXXV. Horned animals with teeth in one iaw VaHetie» 



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