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sistence and colour of the Vvhite of an egg. 1 1 . All the fundus uteri was 

 about an inch and a half thick ; but near the collum minus it grew somewhat 

 thinner; which proceeded from the distention of its spongy and vesicular sub- 

 stance, by the blogd in the vessels running through it in various meanders ; 

 so that when it was cut, it very much resembled the substance of the lungs. 

 12. Upon the inner membrane of the uterus, on wiping it with a sponge, I 

 observed several small eminences, which I took to be the glands mentioned by 

 Malpighi, which separate a humour, to lubricate and moisten its cavity. 



13. On the upper part of the fundus uteri I remarked a great number of 

 small vessels, like slender filaments or threads, running off from its membrane, 

 and terminating into a reddish and soft spongy sort of substance, not unlike 

 the uvula, except its colour, which hung down from that side of the uterus 

 in form of a nipple. These perhaps are the vessels, which, according to some, 

 do separate and secern the matter of the lochia and menses; for they are visible 

 only at those times. 14. Near the beginning of the tubes, I perceived two 

 tubercles, or little bunchings, about the size of a nut, to which perhaps the 

 placenta was fastened ; and to these adhered several glandules of a blackish 

 colour, of different sizes. 15. The collum minus was composed, as it were, of 

 two labia, the uppermost being the most protuberant ; and on it I observed 

 several small glands, out of which, on compression, issued a viscid clear liquor, 

 which is said to seal and close up this part in time of pregnancy. The lower 

 labium was longer and thinner, its edges being cut or indented in several places. 

 16. The rugaB, in the lower part of the vagina, ran as they are usually repre- 

 sented; but those in the upper part had quite a different course, as they are 

 exactly delineated in fig. 13, pi. 9. 17- Near the orifice of the meatus urina- 

 rius there were observable two very large caruncles, shaped like a mulberry. 



This is what I observed in opening this woman. I come in the next place 

 to relate, as far as I was informed, the symptoms that accompanied her big 

 belly, and the method used for her recovery. About three years ago, not long ♦ 

 after she had laid in of her first child, she had a violent blow on the left side of 

 her belly, very painful at first, but in two or three days, on keeping herself 

 quiet in bed, the pain and anguish went off. About two months after this, 

 she began to feel some small pains in the left hypogastric region, where she 

 had received the blow ; and she observed that side of her belly was become 

 much larger than the other : these pains increased more and more, till they 

 became very violent; but upon conception, which was three months after she 

 was first afflicted with them, they went off, and her belly swelled gradually, as 

 is usual in pregnancy, having no other symptoms but what are incident to that 

 state; only she was much larger than ordinary; and on that account she for- 



