Book - Uterus And Embryo (1889)

UTERUS AND EMBRYO:

I. RABBIT; II. MAN.

BY

CHARLES-SEDGWICK MINOT,

Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

Reprinted from The Journal of Morphology, Vol. II., No. 3, April, 1889.

BOSTON: GINN AND COMPANY, 1889.

Volume II. April, 1889.

JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY.

UTERUS AND EMBRYO: — I. RABBIT; II. MAN.

CHARLES-SEDGWICK MINOT,

Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

Introduction

This paper arose not as the result of a special investigation, but as the outcome of general studies undertaken in connection with the preparation of a Treatise on Human Embryology. For such a work, knowledge of the foetal envelopes seemed especially important. I was thus led to examine them, and found in so doing that the structure of the parts differed in many respects from what had been assumed. The rabbit's uterus was examined in the hope of obtaining light as to some of the changes in the human uterus, but the differences are so great that little help was gotten ; but on the other hand I was brought to a conception of the changes in the rabbit's uterus so fundamentally different from the views of previous writers that I was induced to carry my observations far enough to make sure of the essential alterations. The following communication is therefore in no sense monographic, but only supplementary to the work of others. My own work has been accomplished by the aid of a grant from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, without which it could not have been carried out. The recipient of such aid naturally wishes to publish what he has accomplished, since such a publication is the most fitting acknowledgment of the assistance enjoyed. I feel my obligations to the Association the more deeply because the grant is the first made from its Research Fund. May I express the hope that that fund will be largely increased, and the Association enabled to make numerous grants to other workers, for in so doing it will do more for the promotion of science than, I believe, by any other means whatsoever.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

I. Rabbit. Uterus at six days Uterus at seven days Uterus at eight days Uterus at nine days Embryo at nine days Uterus at nine days and teen hours Uterus at eleven days Embryo at eleven days Uterus at thirteen days Uterus and embryo at days Summary Comparison with other rodents

II. Man. Allantois and umbilical cord Amnion Chorion Uterus during menstruation Uterus one month pregnant Uterus seven months pregnant Uterus after abortion Origin of decidual cells General considerations Summary Bibliography

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