Catalogue of anatomical preparations in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow ... / [compiled by] G. Fordyce, David Pitcairn, W. Combe.

  • Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery
Date:
1840
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Credit: Catalogue of anatomical preparations in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow ... / [compiled by] G. Fordyce, David Pitcairn, W. Combe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. 348. s. A Placenta and portion of the Membranes, from the human Subject, about the third month of pregnancy. No. 349* A Child injected, and Placenta; about the fifth month. No. 350. s. A Child injected, (a female), with the parietes of the thorax and abdomen removed, showing the general situation of thoracic and abdominal viscera. No. 352. s. The Foetal part of Placenta, with a portion of Chorion, most minutely injected: hardened, and in oil of turpen- tine : from the sheep. No. 354, s. A portion of Chorion from the Mare ; the arteries being injected red, and the veins yellow: showing an infinite num- ber of convoluting branches overspreading the whole membrane. No. 367. s. An Uterus where there had been an Ovum in one of the Fallopian Tubes; the Fallopian tube is distended to nearly the size of a hen’s egg, and has been ruptured, the ovum pro- bably passing out into the cavity of the belly: what is remarka- ble is the increase of the uterus, as if it contained an ovum, and the presence in it of the decidua, which is clearly proved by this Preparation to be formed by the uterus, and to be independent in some measure of the ovum. [The foetus was found in a coagulum, and is preserved in the Bottle marked R. R. 291.] No. 368. s. Another portion of Ditto, showing decidua. No. 369. s. A longitudinal section of Uterus, where a placenta is seen extraneous to the uterus, and occupying a Fallopian tube; the uterus in this case has not increased very much in its size. No. 370. s. The Foetus belonging to the last No., very much defaced and compressed. No. 374. s, A monstrous production in the Ovarium; consistino^ of a jaw, teeth, some fat, and hair. No. 3/5’S. Some Teeth in the Rectum; a monstrous produc- tion formed, most probably, in the ovarium, and which had ulcer- ated its way into the rectum; the uterus on the other side ap- •2 L