Descriptive catalogue of the museum illustrative of Dr Evory Kennedy's lectures on midwifery, and the diseases of women and children.

  • Kennedy Evory, 1806-1886.
Date:
1840
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Credit: Descriptive catalogue of the museum illustrative of Dr Evory Kennedy's lectures on midwifery, and the diseases of women and children. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    and fifth months. A portion of the membranes has been removed, in order better to display the foetus. (R. C.) B. a. 7. Foetus and Membranes, probably about the second month. The preparation exhibits very beautifully the villosities of the chorion, which are the rudiments of the placenta, and to which the umbilical cord of the foetus may be seen passing. B. a. 8. Diseased Ovum, probably about the sixth week. The foetal membranes appear adherent to the decidua, dropsy of the aninios appears to have existed, and the umbilical cord is hydropic. B. a. 9. Ovum about the sixth week. The decidua reflexa has been partly removed, in order to display the floc- culent structure of the chorion. Within the amnion may be seen the foetus resting on a piece of coloured paper. B. a. 10. Another Ovum, nearly as old as the preceding one. On the outer surface of the chorion may be seen the flocculi, small and delicate; they finally disappear- ing from the membrane, except at that part where the placenta becomes developed. On the amnion may be seen a small white spot, the remains of the vesicula umbilicalis. B. a. 11. Foetus about the fourth week, in the sac of the amnion, to which a portion of the chorion adheres. In the upper part of the sac of the amnion may be seen the umbilical vesicle ; the extremities of the foetus are just beginning to sprout. (R. C.)—Presented by Dr Collins. B. a. 12. Diseased Ovum, of unknown date. Theflocculent structvure of the chorion may be well seen at those parts where the decidua reflexa is absent. The amnion is considerably smaller than the chorion, a large inter- space being left between the two membranes. The foetus must have been blighted at a very early period.