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. 18. Ovum coriaceum, cum hydrope funis et placentâ hydatica.

(Aborted at twelve or thirteen weeks?)

It is impossible to describe in words, better than Mr. Perry’s pencil has done, the two lovely specimens consigned to this Plate. The drawings speak for themselves. They convey, with a precision which is one of the great merits of that artist, every minute feature of two preparations calculated to afford a fund of knowledge, on the subject of the formative process of the human Ovum, for which we should look elsewhere in vain.

The nutritive involucra are fleshy or coriaceous. Bunches of real hydatids hang pendulous from a part of their external surface—while internally they are lined with the secreting membrane in a morbid state, and that portion of the cord which is farthest from the fœtus appears to be dropsical. The hydatids are connected with the placenta. The fœtus is well formed, and in its growth no impediment seems to have intervened.