The Dublin practice of midwifery / by Henry Maunsell.

  • Henry Maunsell
Date:
1856
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Credit: The Dublin practice of midwifery / by Henry Maunsell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is constracted; and lastly, examine its means of support while in the uterus, and the organs acces- sory thereto. The Fcetiis.—After the lapse of a period, not as yet certainly ascertained, the simple vesicle of early pregnancy is found, upon close inspection, to contain a minute opaque body attached to its inner surface by a slender and very short filament. When first seen, this corpuscle appears curved into a semicircle, and without any distinction of parts. In a short time a distinction is evident between the head and body; but the fundamental part appears always to be the spine. In the se- cond month, the extremities begin to bud out, as it were, from the body; and between the lower ones the spine projects somewhat in the form of a tail. At the same time the face and organs of the cavities sprout out from the concave side of the corpuscle. The eyes also appear, and subsequently the mouth, nostrils, and openings of the ears. In the course of the second and tliird months, the genitals are formed, but present very little differ- ence 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
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