Volume 2

The anatomy of the gravid uterus. With practical inferences relative to pregnancy and labour / By John Burns.

  • Burns, John, 1774-1850.
Date:
1799
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Credit: The anatomy of the gravid uterus. With practical inferences relative to pregnancy and labour / By John Burns. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    advanced period at which I have had an opportunity of examining it while re- maining in the uterus, I fhall now add, that, after delivery at the full time, the ftructure is much lefs diftinct, and the appearance of reflection cannot poflibly be perceived. At this time, the termi- mation of the decidua is ftill very evi- dent ; but the decidua, the placenta, and ° the decidua reflexa, adhere all fo toge- ther, that no angle, or appearance of re- flection, can be obferved. On the con- trary, a kind of polypus-like fubftance, or lymphatic excretion, furrounds the rim of the placenta, Tue decidua, and decidua reflexa, at a much earlier period, as*in them the ftruéture of the oyum is equally well marked. I have only preferred the fixth month, becaufe the fituation is exattly the fame then as in the ninth month. Ee 2