human fee tus found in the ovarium. 103 
them to that state of demonstration, which Mr. Bauer has so 
beautifully represented in the drawing (see Plate VI.) 
The left ovarium (O) was the seat of the tumour, which, as 
it gradually enlarged, distended the coverings of that organ 
in the same progressive manner, in proportion to its own size, 
so as to remain, for a time, wholly enveloped by it. 
As the foetus however increased further, the ovarium burst 
in three different places (1. 2. 3) and thus the membranous 
sac forming the tumour, protruded partially into the cavity of 
the abdomen. During this destructive process, that part of 
the covering of the ovarium was also lacerated, over the inner 
surface of which the placenta (P) was engrafted, so as to tear 
the adhesions of the latter, thereby producing that sudden and 
fatal hemorrhage, which destroyed the life of the mother and 
the child, and filled the cavity of the abdomen with blood. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE VI. 
The womb (A) had acquired considerable developement 
during the increase of the foetus, so as nearly to have reached 
the size which it is known to attain when bearing the pro- 
duce of conception. Its parietes (a a) were thickened in pro- 
portion ; the orifice was closed, and transversely oblong, as 
I have generally found it to be in women who have borne 
children.* Several small prominent vesicles (bb) surrounded 
the internal orifice, and part of the neck of the uterus, within 
whose cavity (B) neither fluid, membrane, nor production of 
any description was found. 
The right ovarium (C) was of a full size, and healthy, with 
* The lady in question had been the mother of seven children. She had re- 
gularly menstruated up to December, when conception took place ; and from that 
time there were occasional irregular discharges of a coloured fluid from the vagina. 
