. Obstetrics: the science and the art. ^ /Mill» <l w was found to be effused into the small bean-shaped cavity of thewombs h h; but there was a great multitude of tubuli standing vertically to the paries ofI^ig- ^2. the womb that were filled with the red injection, pre-senting the appearance ofwaving or straight red lines,that passed from the innersuperficies of the substanceof the womb down throughthe soft deciduous matterto the inner boundary ofit. The Fig. 52 gives apretty correct view of the appearances presented upon cutting one ofthe wombs open in its longitudinal diameter. The lentic
. Obstetrics: the science and the art. ^ /Mill» <l w was found to be effused into the small bean-shaped cavity of thewombs h h; but there was a great multitude of tubuli standing vertically to the paries ofI^ig- ^2. the womb that were filled with the red injection, pre-senting the appearance ofwaving or straight red lines,that passed from the innersuperficies of the substanceof the womb down throughthe soft deciduous matterto the inner boundary ofit. The Fig. 52 gives apretty correct view of the appearances presented upon cutting one ofthe wombs open in its longitudinal diameter. The lenticular-shapedcavity is seen in it as well as the converging tubuli. It gives also a. PREGNAlSrCY. 191 soocl idea of the tliickness of the membranous uterine walls, com-pared with the accidentally developed interior muco-tubular mem-brane. On the exterior of the womb is seen the ovary, with part ofits Fallopian tube. I think no one who has examined M. Costesengraving of the gravid womb, opened, can fail to be struck with theimmense comparative development of these uterine tubuli duringthe rut in the opossum. It was, probably, among the slimes of thistubular texture that the Rev. Dr. Bachman, of Charleston, S. C,found the young embryons moving—as expressed in his paper to thePhilad. Acad, of Natural Sciences, 1848. I in vain searched forsuch free embryos in the various specimens of Didelphis in rut that Iexamined with the Drs. Wallace. 859. There is one circumstance that ought not to be overlookedby the Student while making up his settled opinion as to the is this. In the solidungula, and the cetacea, the entire exteriorsurface of the chorion becomes placen
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