Introductory lecture to a course on obstetrics / by R.A.F. Penrose.

  • Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose
Date:
1859
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Credit: Introductory lecture to a course on obstetrics / by R.A.F. Penrose. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    they bring into existence this animal, but with it comes into being a spiritual essence which all the agencies in nature cannot destroy I whose existence is an eternity! Do you ask me what it is] It is the Breath of the Eternal God in this dust! it is a human soul! This must be a stopping-point in our investigations, a point where human wisdom should humbly bow itself in reverence before the almighty power of its Omnipotent Creator, and where human intelligence may recognize the truth that there are mysteries in our being, which, with all our vaunted powers, must, in this life, ever remain mysteries to us. This phenomenon of human conception is, and must ever be, beyond our comprehension; yet, we are able to study the product of conception, and the changes which occur in it, from the moment when, as a fecundated egg, it leaves the Graafian vesicle, until, as a matured foetus, it is ready to be expelled from the cavity of the uterus. When conception takes place, the spermatic fluid may have fecundated the egg either before it left the Graafian vesicle, or during its passage along the Fallopian tube, or, perhaps, even after it has reached the cavity of the uterus. Fecundation, however, most generally takes place before the egg has left the Graafian vesicle, the
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