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Sir Everard Home on corpora lutea. 
Fig. 4. An internal view of the same, showing the corpus 
luteum partly absorbed, and the remaining parts unconnected 
with each other. 
Fig. 5. A transverse section of the same ovarium, and its 
corpus luteum. 
Plate V. 
Contains six figures of the human ovarium at different 
periods after impregnation, all of them of the natural size, 
except Fig. 6, which is magnified two diameters. 
Fig. 1. An external view of the ovarium, that did not 
contain the ovum from which the child was produced, taken 
immediately after the child was born. 
Fig. 2. An internal view of the same, in which there is a 
corpus luteum nearly arrived at its full size. 
Fig. 3. The external view of the ovarium, in which the 
impregnated ovum had been formed. 
Fig. 4. An internal view of the same, showing how much 
the corpus luteum had been broken down, and the want of 
distinctness in the remaining parts. There is also a new 
corpus luteum forming. 
When Fig. 2 and Fig. 4 are compared, it will be seen, that 
all corpora lutea which have been preserved after the mother 
dies in child-birth, do not belong to the ovum of the child 
born, but to that which is to succeed it. 
Fig. 5. The external appearance of the ovarium of a 
woman who had twelve children, and died at seventy years 
of age. 
