On the anatomical relations of the blood-vessels of the mother to those of the fœtus in the human species / by John Reid.

  • John Reid
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[1840]
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    C-7 0/ 0/ ON THE ANATOMICAL RELATIONS OF THE B L O O D-V ESSELS OF THE MOTHER TO THOSE OF THE FOETUS IN THE HUMAN SPECIES. By JOHN REID, M. D., F. R. C. P. E. T-ecturer on the Institutes of Medicine, President of the Anatomical Society, Superintendant of Pathological Anatomy in the Royal Infirmary, &c. (From the Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, No. 146,J The particular manner in which the blood-vessels of the mother and foetus are arranged on the inner surface of the uterus and in the interior of the placenta, by which their contained fluids act and react upon each other and the blood of the foetus is rendered fit for the jDrocess of nutrition, has been the subject of much dis- cussion, and of much investigation. That the blood-vessels of the uterus and placenta communicate with each other, and that a mu- tual interchange of blood can readily take place between them, appears to have been the prevailing supposition among the ear- liest cultivators of physiological science. This opinion was after- wards strengthened by the results which Cowper, * Vieussens, -f- Noortwyk, | and others, supposed they had obtained from injec- • The Anatomy of the Human Body. The fifty-fourth Table. 169?]. •(■ Dissertatio de Structura et Usu Uteri Placentas Muliebris, in Genevensi Ver- heyenii editione. Vieussens' observations were made on the bitch. X Uteri Humani Gravidi Anatome et Historia, p. 10, 1743, A