A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . Fig. 23.—Human ovum at the end of the first month. Actual size. (Woods Museum,Bellevue Hospital, No. 1193.) three and one-half ounces (Fig. 25). The head is now devel-oped, and is by far the largest part of the foetus, being nearlyone-third its entire size. The neck and extremities are alsoformed and the fingers are separated. The skin is of a palerose-color and very thin and delicate. The placenta is distinctlydeveloped, and the genital organs are formed sufficiently to per-mit recognition of the sex. From this time on the embryo
A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . Fig. 23.—Human ovum at the end of the first month. Actual size. (Woods Museum,Bellevue Hospital, No. 1193.) three and one-half ounces (Fig. 25). The head is now devel-oped, and is by far the largest part of the foetus, being nearlyone-third its entire size. The neck and extremities are alsoformed and the fingers are separated. The skin is of a palerose-color and very thin and delicate. The placenta is distinctlydeveloped, and the genital organs are formed sufficiently to per-mit recognition of the sex. From this time on the embryo iscalled the foetus. Development progresses rapidly as the weeks go by, and atthe end of the sixth month marked changes have foetus is now about twelve inches long and weighs about THE FCETUS. 51. Fig. 24.—Outline of hunan embryo of about four weeks. Enlarged four times. (Allen Thomson.)
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