The Dublin practice of midwifery / by Henry Maunsell.

  • Henry Maunsell
Date:
1856
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    sertion of the funis, whose vessels immediately ramify in a divergent manner upon the smface of the organ. The placenta gives to the touch a pecuHar rough fleshy feel, wliich the student wiH do well to make himself familiar -Rdth, that he may be enabled to recognise it while in the uterus. The external, or uterine, suiface is covered with a thin layer of decidua, intimately connected with its substance. Under the decidua the pla- centa is diidded into lobes, the surfaces of which have somewhat of a rough, spongy appearance; and by some it is said that there are defined openings to be observed, leading through the decidua into the substance.* Much dispute has arisen as to the connection of this suiface with the uterus. Hun- ter supposed that large vessels passed dii-ectly from the mother into cells in the placenta. A different opinion was entertained by the Monrosf, and has been lately very ably advocated by Dr. Robert Lee. These gentlemen deny that any connection exists between the uterus and placenta, except, perhaps, by small nutrient vessels. Later stiU^ Dr. H. Ley + has had an opportunity of accm-ately * Dr. H. Ley in Med. Gaz. toI. xii. t Med. Essays, vol. ii.; and Essays and Obserr. Phys. and Lit., vol. 1. •' t Med. Gaz. vol. xii.
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