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Sir Everard Home on the existence 
music, but had few English words ; appeared very sensible 
of kindness, and remembered perfectly those from whom it 
had received attention. 
The mother has had a fifth child in Ireland, which, like 
her former children, was of the common size when born, and 
has nothing particular in its appearance.* 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 
Plate II. 
Fig. 1. A small portion of the placenta of the seal, ex- 
posing the chorion by which it is' covered, through which 
are seen the arterial and venal branches injected with wax, 
magnified four diameters. 
The folds of the chorion contain the branches of the 
nerves. 
The cut edge of this portion exposes the structure of the 
placenta, which is more distinctly seen in Fig. 4. 
Fig. 2. The same portion as Fig. 1. exposing the uterine 
surface, which appears to be a tissue of arteries, veins, and 
nerves, enveloped in a soft spongy coagulable lymph ; mag- 
nified in the same degree as Fig. 1. 
Fig. 3. A small portion of Fig. 2. magnified ten diameters, 
to show the tissue, and the parts of which it is composed 
* Since this Lecture was read, two cases have been stated to me, in which I have 
the most implicit confidence. In one, a Lady in early pregnancy was frightened by 
a sailor with one arm, and her child was bom under the same deformity. In 
another, this occurred late in pregnancy. No effect was produced on that child j 
but in her next child, although every alarm in her mind had subsided, the de- 
formity was found to have taken place. 
