The Dublin practice of midwifery / By Henry Maunsell.

  • Henry Maunsell
Date:
1834
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Credit: The Dublin practice of midwifery / By Henry Maunsell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tail. At the same time the face and organs of the cavities sprout out from the concave side of the corpuscule. The eyes also appear, and subse- quently the mouth, nostrils, and openings of the ears. In the course of the second and third months, the genitals are formed, but present very little dif- ference in the different sexes, the penis and clitoris being nearly of equal size, and the testes, which remain in the abdomen until the seventh or eighth month, resembling much the ovaria. Ossification commences about the seventh or eighth week. During the third and fourth month the nose, lips, eyelids, and ears are forming, and the parietes of the abdomen are completed, so as to include the intestines, which previously formed a sort of hernia in the commencement of the funis. The extre- mities continue to grow in a branch-like manner, andtoform at their terminations the fingers andtoes- About the end of the fifth month, the foetus has nearly assumed its perfect form, and has then chiefly to increase in size. It still, however, dif- fers considerably from the child : the testicles are in the abdomen, the eyelids coherent, and the pupil closed by a membrane called memhrana fUTpillaris. Even at the full period, the foetus differs re- markably from the child in many of its organs, and especially in those concerned in circulation. Into these differences (which are dwelt upon in every system of physiology) it will not be necessary, at present, to enter farther than merely to call to
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