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

D.D.D.

AUCTOR.

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CONTENTS.

Dedication. Advertisement, [XI]. Prolegomena, p. [i].–xxi. Perfect (Normal) Animal Reproduction, prop. [1]–3. Imperfect (Anormal) Animal Reproduction (Abortion) prop. [4]–7. Study of Abortion, prop. [8]–12. Conception, prop. [13]. Ovulum (Description of before Fecundation), prop. [14]–17. Fecundation, prop. [18]. Ovulum (Description of after Fecundation), prop. [19]–22. Cortical Membrane of the Ovulum, prop. [23]–26. Deciduous Membrane of the Uterus, prop. [27]–31. Corpora Lutea, prop. [34]–37. Transit, Volume, and First Development of the Ovulum, prop. [38]–42. The Chorion, prop. [43]–44. Structure, Function and Vascularity of the Chorion, prop. [45]–51. Fluid of the Chorion, prop. [55]. The Amnion, prop. [54]. Structure, Function and Vascularity of the Amnion, prop. [52]–54. Fluid of the Amnion, prop. [53]. Progressive Increase of the Ovulum, prop. [56]. Independent Life of the Ovulum, prop. [57]–59. Earliest or Mechanical Connection of the Ovulum with the Uterus, prop. [60]. Metamorphoses of the newly engendered Being, prop. [61]. Growth and Progress of the Embryo and Fœtus, prop. [62]–66. Priority of the Vascular over the Nervous System in the Fœtus, prop. [67]. Formation of the Blood in the Fœtus, prop. [68]. Formation of the Nerves in the Fœtus, prop. [69]. Apparatus for Digestion, prop. [70]. Vesicula Umbilicalis, prop. [71]. The Allantoid, prop. [72]. The Umbilical Cord, prop. [73]–75. Omphalo-mesenteric Vessels, prop. [76]. More advanced, or Vascular Connection of the Ovum with the Uterus, prop. [77], First Formation of the Placenta, prop. [77]. Cotyledons of the Placenta, prop. [78]–80, Deciduous Vessels of the Placenta, prop. [81]–83, Membrana Propria of the Placenta, prop. [84]. Proofs of the Existence of Deciduous Vessels in the Placenta, prop. [85]. Deciduous Vessels, form the connecting Vascular Link between the Uterus and Placenta, prop. [86]. Proofs of it from Anormal Anatomy, prop. [87]. Circulation, Utero-fœtal, prop. [88] and [90]. Recent Fallacies respecting the Structure of the Placenta, prop. [89]. Functions of the Placenta, prop. [91]. Physiological Proofs of the Deciduous and Fœtal Structure of the Placenta, prop. [92]. Nutrition of the Fœtus through the Placenta, prop. [93]. Lymphatics and Lymphatic Absorption in the Placenta, prop. [94]. Pretended Nutrition by the Amnionic Fluid, prop. [95]–96. Respiration of the Fœtus in Utero, prop. [97]. Nature of the Changes in the Fœtal Blood, prop. [98]. Bile secreted by the Placenta, prop. [99]. Distinction between Life and Nutrition in the Fœtus, prop. [100]–102.

EXPLANATIONS OF PLATES, AND REMARKS.

PLATE I. page [1]–6.

SPECIMENS OF VERY EARLY MISCARRIAGES.

Remarks on Fig. 1 and 2. page [2].

Remarks on Fig. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. p. [5].