66 Forty Years Beagling 



"Now let us take the metabolism of the foetus. 

 The foetus in its earliest stage is one single cell 

 which was a product of the ovarian tissue in which 

 starts life on its own account as a separate organiza- 

 tion, directly it is fertilized by coalescence with the 

 male cell the spermatozoon is generally said to take 

 place in the fallopian tube or uterus (that is under 

 normal conditions). This fertilization, however, 

 may take place in the ovary, and it immediately 

 descends the fallopian tube to the uterus' commenc- 

 ing its anabolism at the expense of its own contents. 

 This becomes quickly used up, and it has then to 

 search for more food, and it affects its object by 

 throwing out a root which passes into the sinuses 

 in the uterine wall. 



"I need not here describe the placental connec- 

 tion, for Dr. Mills has already done so. Suffice it 

 for me to state that the foetus elaborates its own 

 blood supply and its own organism at the expense 

 of the food it abstracts from its dam. I may, how- 

 ever, point out that its blood stream is essentially 

 different from that of the dam, the two never be- 

 coming coalesced. During its uterine hfe, the 

 foetus grows at a very rapid rate, its metabolism 

 being of an anabolic nature, thus as far as food in 

 the common acceptation of the word, there is 



