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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    and amnion, which they describe as analogous to the allantoid of brutes, and from which they say the urachus proceeds along the cord to the fun- dus of the bladder. By others, the existence of an allantoid in the human subject is altogether de- nied, and the urachus is considered merely as a rudimental type of the same organ in animals. The use of the allantoid has been generally sup- posed to be for a reservoir for the urine of those animals in which it exists. Velpeau, who admits the existence of some structm-e of the kind in the human subject, supposes that it serves some un- known pui'pose in the early nutrition of the foetus.
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