Catalogue of the Anatomical and Pathological Preparations of Dr. William Hunter: In the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, Volume 2James MacLehose and Sons, 1900 - 943 pages |
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Page 438 - ... the stomach itself would be digested. But we find, on the contrary, that the stomach, which at one instant, that is, while possessed of the living principle, was capable of resisting the digestive powers which it contained, the next moment, viz., when deprived of the living principle, is itself capable of being digested, either by the digestive powers of other stomachs, or by the remains of that power which it had of digesting other things.
Page 437 - If it were possible for a man's hand, For example, to be introduced into the stomach of a living animal, and kept there for some considerable time, it would be found, that the dissolvent powers of the stomach could have no effect upon it ; but if the same hand were separated from the body, and introduced into the same stomach, we should then find that the stomach would immediately act upon it.
Page 697 - This membrane is an efflorescence of the internal coat of the uterus itself, and is therefore shed as often as a woman bears a child or suffers a miscarriage. It is of considerable thickness and one stratum of it is always left upon the uterus after delivery, most of which dissolves and comes away with the lochia.
Page 438 - ... gradations. To be sensible of this effect, nothing more is necessary than to compare the inner surface of the great end of the stomach with any other part of its inner surface : the sound portions will appear soft, spongy, and granulated, and without distinct blood-vessels...
Page 704 - ... orifices on the two parted surfaces. This decidua or uterine portion of the placenta is not a simple thin membrane expanded over the surface of the part. It produces a thousand irregular processes, which pervade the substance of the placenta, as deep as the chorion or inner surface, and are everywhere so blended and entangled with the ramifications of the umbilical system that no anatomist will perhaps be able to discover the nature of their union.
Page 438 - ... will appear smooth, thin, and more transparent; and the vessels will be seen, ramifying in its substance; and upon squeezing the blood which they contain, from the larger branches to the smaller, it will be found to pass out at the digested ends of the vessels, and to appear like drops on the inner surface."* These effects, he attributes to digestion, by the gastric juice, in the ducts of the glands which secrete it.
Page 704 - ... able to discover the nature of their union. While these two parts are combined, the placenta makes a pretty firm mass ; no part of it is loose or floating. But when they are carefully separated, the umbilical system is evidently nothing but loose floating ramifications of the umbilical vessels, like that vascular portion of the chorion which makes part of the placentula in a calf; and the uterine part is seen shooting out into innumerable floating processes and rugae, with the most irregular...
Page 438 - In many subjects, this digestive power extends much farther than through the stomach. I have often found, that, after it had dissolved the stomach at the usual place, the contents of the stomach had come into contact with the spleen and diaphragm, had partly dissolved the adjacent side of the spleen...
Page 709 - ... that the human placenta, like that of the quadruped, is composed of two distinct parts, though blended together, viz., an umbilical, which may be considered as a part of the foetus, and an uterine, which belongs to the mother; that each of these parts has its peculiar system of arteries and veins, and its peculiar circulation, receiving blood by its arteries and returning it by its veins; that the circulation through these two parts of the placenta differs in the following manner: in the umbilical...
Page 697 - In separating the membranes from the uterus we observe that the adhesion of the decidua to the chorion, and likewise its adhesion to the muscular fibres of the uterus, is rather stronger than the adhesion between its external and internal stratum, which, we may presume, is the reason that in labour it so commonly leaves a stratum upon the inside of the uterus.