A textbook of obstetrics . Fig. 194. — Lochia on the secondday (lochia cruenta), showing a fewcocci and streptococci : a, Decidualcells; l>, red blood-corpuscles; r,white blood-corpuscles ; </, epithelium(Winckel). Fig. 195. — Lochia on the fourthday: a, Decidual cells ; 6, white blood-corpuscles ; c, a few red blood-corpus-cles ; ,/, epithelium ; e, micro-orgauiMii-,(Winckel).. Fig. i<)<)—Lochia on seventh day; afebrile case: a. Blood-corpuscles ; £, diplococci and monococci; c, white blood-corpuscles; </, epithelium; ,-, decidual cells (Winckel). the upper cellular layer of th
A textbook of obstetrics . Fig. 194. — Lochia on the secondday (lochia cruenta), showing a fewcocci and streptococci : a, Decidualcells; l>, red blood-corpuscles; r,white blood-corpuscles ; </, epithelium(Winckel). Fig. 195. — Lochia on the fourthday: a, Decidual cells ; 6, white blood-corpuscles ; c, a few red blood-corpus-cles ; ,/, epithelium ; e, micro-orgauiMii-,(Winckel).. Fig. i<)<)—Lochia on seventh day; afebrile case: a. Blood-corpuscles ; £, diplococci and monococci; c, white blood-corpuscles; </, epithelium; ,-, decidual cells (Winckel). the upper cellular layer of the uterine decidua, leaving behind onthe uterine wall the lower cellular layer and the glandular por-tion of the uterine mucous membrane. This membrane, deprived 1 Balin, Ueber das Verhalten der Blutgefasse ira Uterus nach stattgehabter G( Lint, An hiv l. Ibid, Bd. xii. THE PUERPERAL STATE. 525 in great part of its nutriment by the contraction of the uterine wall and the obliteration of many of its blood-vessels, loses itsvitality in that portion furthest removed from its source of nutri-ment—the superficial layer of decidual cells. These die and arecast off with the lochial
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