Experiments in which, on the third day after impregnation, the ova of rabbits were found in the fallopian tubes; and on the fourth day after impregnation in the uterus itself; with the first appearances of the foetus / William Cruickshank.

  • Cruickshank, William, 1745-1800
Date:
1797
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Credit: Experiments in which, on the third day after impregnation, the ova of rabbits were found in the fallopian tubes; and on the fourth day after impregnation in the uterus itself; with the first appearances of the foetus / William Cruickshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and divided into two as it came to the mesentery; could not see the urachus or allantois well, nor the membrane to which the omphalo-mesenteric artery goes. EXPERIMENT XV. Opened a doe the fifth day after coitus : found the ova loose in the uterus, to the number of six; even these had a lesser coat in the inside, corresponding to amnion. None in the tubes. EXPERIMENT XVI. Opened (fourteen days after the operation) the doe whose fallopian tube I tied. The uterus of the right side was the size of the sixth day; the ovarium and uterus had gone back¬ wards as to the process, and there was no appearance of foetus; though placenta was very evident on the left side, there was no appearance of conception in the uterus; no placenta; the fallopian tube was very large, soft, and tender; the ova¬ rium twice the size of that on the other side, red, and covered with extravasated coagulable lymph; there was an hydatid in the course of the tube, containing a clear fluid, but nothing like foetus. I suspect that tying the tube prevented the ova on this side from coming out of the ovarium, and that though they rather increased in the ovarium, the process soon stopped; that the process went on, however, in the other side for a few days, and then stopped likewise: there was universal inflamma¬ tion about the uterus and colon of the left side, with great quan¬ tities of white extravasated coagulable lymph; there was water in the abdomen, and all the appearance of peritoneal inflamma¬ tion. This process seems to give but little pain, for the animal at the time she was killed was eating and looking as usual.