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.

by A. B. Granville

Fig. 1. Coagulum hæmatosum intro-uterinum internè solidum, externè membranaceum.

An oblong mass, rounded at each extremity, one of which is more tapering than the other, and is perforated by an external orifice. Its whole length is 2½ inches, the difference in the circumference at the two opposite ends is as 1:2. The orifice is puckered at its edge: the colour of the mass of a marbled red.

This mass may be carefully unravelled in a weak mixture of alcohol and water, when it is found to consist of several membranaceous oblong pouches, placed one within the other, until we arrive at the centre, which is found occupied by a solid black coagulum of blood, perfectly homogeneous, friable when dried, shining in its fracture, and leaving streaks of a brown red colour on paper, when rubbed over its surface.

The appearance of the mass is here represented as it came away, of its natural size and colour, and by its side is placed the same mass after undergoing the process of careful separation of some of its different investitures or coatings. It should be observed that the orifice which exists at the pointed end of the external membrane corresponds with a similar orifice in each of the different subincumbent coverings. These, in their texture and appearances, differ scarcely from the Dysmenorrhoic pseudo-textile membranes described in a former plate.

C. pseudo-ova: molæ. (vulgo, false conceptions.)