A treatise on forensic medicine, or medical jurisprudence.

  • Bartley, O. W.
Date:
1815
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Credit: A treatise on forensic medicine, or medical jurisprudence. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    stance of this chorion is not thinne like as bladder or caule, but of al other partes of | the bodye; it may be most worthily resem- bled to the spleane or melt in a man or beast; the eorpulencie or thicknesse thereof is as much or more as the thicknesse of a man's thumbe, the colour swartishe black, of which colour also the blood therein conteyned, is as the remayne and the refuse of the purer, attract and drawen naturallye of the infante, by the above-named nauill uayne. So that to be short, chorion is the immediat receptacle and receauer of all the uaynes and artires, to be deduced from the matrix to the chylde, and the chylde onlye receaueth at his hande the two uaynes and artires, which bye the waye as they passe thorow the other two caulles towards the chyldes navyle, they send to eche of the : caulles innumerable small eye uaynes and