Theory and practice of midwifery, illustrated with appropriate plates : also, third edition, (improved), of Remarks on the present manner of treating new-born infants. with, A description of the tubes, in which oxygen-gas, or vital-air, passes through the lungs to the blood / by George Chartres.

  • Chartres, George.
Date:
1816
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Credit: Theory and practice of midwifery, illustrated with appropriate plates : also, third edition, (improved), of Remarks on the present manner of treating new-born infants. with, A description of the tubes, in which oxygen-gas, or vital-air, passes through the lungs to the blood / by George Chartres. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Exituf. or Outlet, it is furnished with Nerves, consequently possesses the sense of feeling and irritability, in a greater or lesser degree. CHAPTER III. coo — THE OVUM. This is a short-lived, or rather tempo- rary part, serving to the end of Gesta- tion, or Pregnancy only, (as will be shewn in the chapter on Parturition, or Child- bearing,) just before it comes to be depo- sited in the Womb, it is about the size of a Goose-egg, hollow, and nearly filled with a fluid, termed in Latin, Liquor Amnii of which more hereafter. To the touch, it is like what is termed, a soft Egg, one that had Pr?™aturely extru<*ed, ov before its shell had formed; it is situated on the out- side of the Womb, where it grows till it comes to be ot the size above mentioned; its shell (it I may be allowed the expression) is Vascular, that is, composed of a number of vessels, the mouths of which open, some on its exterior and others on its interior surface. By what is te.med Orgasm, or sort of Spasmodic-action of the surrounding parts, Wlr*^ fr°m *ihere k ]V in*> the Womb, filling exactly the cavity thereof