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. 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.