Observations on certain parts of the animal oeconomy : inclusive of several papers from the Philosophical transactions, etc. / by John Hunter ... ; with notes by Richard Owen.
- John Hunter
- Date:
- 1840
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Credit: Observations on certain parts of the animal oeconomy : inclusive of several papers from the Philosophical transactions, etc. / by John Hunter ... ; with notes by Richard Owen. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![there were others near the edges passing in a different direction, in which fissures are placed veins or sinuses that receive the blood laterally from the lobes. The substance of the placenta seems to be cellular, as in the human subject: this structure allows a com- munication to be kept up between different parts of each lobe, and the sinuses allowing of a communication between the different lobes of which the placenta is composed, the blood passes into the fissures before it enters the veins; in which respect it differs from the human placenta. The arteries from the uterus, on the surface of the placenta, were visible, but too small to be injected: I cannot therefore say- how they terminated in the placenta. The principal veins arose in general from the fissures beginning from the surface, as in the human placenta ; but besides these, there were other small ones; all which, we may suppose, pass through the decidua and enter the substance of the uterus, most probably in the same way as in the human subject. The membranes are the amnios, the chorion, and the membrana decidua. These appear to be much the same as in the human, except that the decidua is considerably thicker, especially where it passes between the uterus and the placenta. The navel-string in the monkey is not proportionally so long as in the human, and is very much and very regularly twisted. There is no urachus, and of course no allantois; not even the small ligament that appears to be a drawing-in of the bladder at its attachment to the navel, the bladder here being rounded. 9. ACCOUNT OF A WOMAN WHO HAD THE SMALL- POX DURING PREGNANCY, AND WHO SEEMED TO HAVE COMMUNICATED THE SAME DISEASE TO THE FCETUS. BY JOHN HUNTER, ESQ., F.R.S.* Read January 17, 1780. Mr. Grant's Account On the 5th of December, 1776, Mrs. Ford had been seized with shivering and the other common symptoms of fever, to which were added great difficulty of breathing and a very hard cough. Mr. Grant saw her on the 7th, and he took from her eight ounces of blood, and gave her a composition of the saline mixture with sper- maceti and magnesia every six hours. This had operated by the 8th two or three times very gently, when most of the complaints were relieved ; but the cough still shaking her violently, bleeding seemed necessary to be repeated, more particularly as she looked upon herself to be in the sixth * [Originally published in the Philosophical Transactions, vol. lxx., 1780.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21131545_0071.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
