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. 17. Ovum uviforme.

(In the third month after the suspension of the menses.)

A uviform abortion is so rare an occurrence that when Mr. Clift first saw the figure of it in the present work, he remarked that it appeared more pictorial than true. The preparation, however, of the size of the design, and as it was sketched by Mr. Perry in 1827, is still in my possession, and I hold it to be most valuable on many accounts.

Under a shower of minute grape-like or granular bunches, is seen suspended that portion of a transparent Ovum, (exhibiting through its diaphanous involucra an embryo bearing no proportion to the magnitude of the Ovum,) which has been denuded of its nutritive involucra. The latter are superimposed to the granular bunches, and are curiously fringed at their margins. They are two in number, and externally to them may be seen the loosely weaved caducous membrane. During three months of utero-gestation, from the moment of conception, has this mass lived—but the embryo has not advanced from what it was at four or five weeks, nor could it. The time was spent by Nature in playfully modelling, forming, and cutting out what would almost appear an artificial plaything; so fantastical it looks.