Obstetrics : the science and the art . of which M. Coste speaks in the above quotation. The cavity is veryminute—bean-shaped, and filled with an apparently slimy matter asin Fig. 52. In an opossum examined last winter, there being present Drs. and E. Wallace, the aorta was injected with size colored withvermilion. Much of the injection was found to be effused into thesmall bean-shaped cavity of the wombs b b; but there was a great multitude of tubuli standingFig. 52. vertically to the paries of the womb, that were filled withthe red injection, presentingthe appearance of waving, orst
Obstetrics : the science and the art . of which M. Coste speaks in the above quotation. The cavity is veryminute—bean-shaped, and filled with an apparently slimy matter asin Fig. 52. In an opossum examined last winter, there being present Drs. and E. Wallace, the aorta was injected with size colored withvermilion. Much of the injection was found to be effused into thesmall bean-shaped cavity of the wombs b b; but there was a great multitude of tubuli standingFig. 52. vertically to the paries of the womb, that were filled withthe red injection, presentingthe appearance of waving, orst raight red lines, that passedfrom the inner superficies ofthe substance of the wombdown through the soft deci-duous matter to the innerboundary of it. The Fig. 52,gives a pretty correct view of the appearances presented upon cutting. PREGNANCY. 191 one of the wombs open in its longitudinal diameter. The lenticular-shaped cavity is seen in it as well as the converging tubuli. Itgives also a good idea of the thickness of the membranous uterinewalls, compared with the accidentally developed interior muco-tubu-lar membrane. On the exterior of the womb is seen the ovary,with part of its Fallopian tube. I think no one who has examinedM. Costes engraving of the gravid womb, opened, can fail to bestruck with the immense comparative development of these uterinetubuli during the rut in the opossum. It was, probably, among theslimes of this tubular texture that the Eev. Dr. Bachman, of Charles-ton, S. C, found the young embryons moving—as expressed in hispaper to the Philad. Acad, of Natural Sciences, 1848. I in vainsearched for such free embryos in the various specimens of Didelphisin rut that I examined with the Drs. Wallace. There is one circumstance that ought not to be overlooked by theStudent while making up his sett
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