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Graphic illustrations of abortion and the diseases of menstruation: Consisting of Twelve Plates from Drawings Engraved on Stone, and Coloured by Mr. J. Perry, and Two Copper-plates from the Philosophical Transactions, Coloured by the Same Artist. the Whole Representing Forty-five Specimens of Aborted Ova and Adventitious Productions of the Uterus, With Preliminary Observations, Explanations of the Figures and Remarks, Anatomical and Physiological.Granville, A. B. (Augustus Bozzi)

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Graphic illustrations of abortion and the diseases of menstruation: Consisting of Twelve Plates from Drawings Engraved on Stone, and Coloured by Mr. J. Perry, and Two Copper-plates from the Philosophical Transactions, Coloured by the Same Artist. the Whole Representing Forty-five Specimens of Aborted Ova and Adventitious Productions of the Uterus, With Preliminary Observations, Explanations of the Figures and Remarks, Anatomical and Physiological.

Name: Graphic illustrations of abortion and the diseases of menstruation: Consisting of Twelve Plates from Drawings Engraved on Stone, and Coloured by Mr. J. Perry, and Two Copper-plates from the Philosophical Transactions, Coloured by the Same Artist. the Whole Representing Forty-five Specimens of Aborted Ova and Adventitious Productions of the Uterus, With Preliminary Observations, Explanations of the Figures and Remarks, Anatomical and Physiological.
Author: Granville, A. B. (Augustus Bozzi)

Granville, A. B. (Augustus Bozzi)

Menstruation; Miscarriage

It is manifest, that under the various unpropitious circumstances in
  which these Ova were placed, growth must have been materially
  retarded and ultimately impeded; while life must have ceased
  sometime before the Ova were expelled.

  Judging from their size and the length of time during which they
  lodged in the uterine cavity, these Ova must have acted the part of
  parasitic animals upon that organ.


[Illustration:

  Plate 3

  _Joseph Perry del et Lithog._             _Printed by C. Hullmandel._

  D^r. Granville on Abortion
  and the Diseases of Menstruation
]




                               PLATE III.

      SPECIMENS OF MISCARRIAGE BETWEEN THE SECOND AND THIRD MONTH.


Fig. 13. Ovum semi-coriaceum.

            (Nine weeks after menstruation?)

      The external covering has been laid open. It is thick and fleshy.
      A second or inner covering is observed equally dense in texture
      and opaque; and a third involucrum, lying over the secreting
      membranes, (which are seen through a wide slit, bearing at their
      upper portion the filiform vessels,) is not only thick, like the
      second involucrum, but is actually seen passing from the
      transparent into the dense and opaque texture. The artist has
      portrayed this circumstance most accurately in his engraving. The
      placental cotyledons are at the posterior part of the figure,
      mossy, in groups, and some of them covered with their _membrana
      propria_. The embryo of this, and of Ovum 15, are not visible.

      There can be little doubt but that intro-uterine inflammation,
      extended to the involucra of the Ovum, has produced, first, its
      morbid change of structure, and lastly, its early expulsion from
      the womb.


Fig. 14. Ovum semi-coriaceum.

            (Ten weeks after menstruation?)

      This is somewhat larger than the preceding Ovum, although of the
      same tissue and structure. The withered fœtus is visible through
      the opening made in the secreting membranes, and the _cicatricula_
      may also be perceived on one part of the inner layer of the middle
      membrane, or involucrum, which lies immediately over the amnion.

      I attribute both the structural condition, and the untimely
      expulsion of the Ovum, to the same causes.


Fig. 15. Ovum omnino opacum, rotundum.

            (After the lapse of three menstrual periods?)

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