354 Sir Everard Home on the passage of the ovum 
recovered a little, and went to bed. Next day, she was much 
the same ; the period of menstruation had arrived, but it did 
not come on, and from this time there was a wildness in her 
manner, and she appeared distressed in her mind. On the 
13th she had an epileptic fit attended with delirium, and on 
the 15th, about ten o’clock in the forenoon, died. 
After death, the uterus showed signs of pregnancy, and 
from the statement that has been given, she appears to have 
been impregnated on the 7th of January, eight days before 
her death ; for, although she was known to have a lover, 
there are circumstances to prove, that she could not have 
seen him after that time, nor for many days before. 
The uterus having been hardened in spirit, with the 
assistance of Mr. Clift, I examined the parts. The right 
ovarium had a small torn orifice upon the most prominent 
part of its external surface, we slit it open in a longitudinal 
direction, in a line close to the edge of this orifice; the 
orifice was found to lead to a cavity filled up with coagulated 
blood, and surrounded by a yellowish organized structure. 
Upon opening into the cavity of the uterus, its inner surface 
was covered with an exudation of coagulable lymph, beau- 
tifully represented in the drawing; (PI. VIII.), the ovum 
lay concealed among the long fibres of coagulable lymph 
near the cervix, and was brought to view by separating them 
with the point of a needle which I employed in making the 
search. As soon as it was disentangled, it rose up, moving 
along with the loose ends of the fibres into the spirit, by 
which the parts were covered. It had an oval appearance, 
one portion of it was quite white, the other semi-transpa- 
rent ; but soon after, being exposed to the spirit, the whole 
