Tractatus de Foetu Nutrito; Or, a Discourse Concerning the Nutrition of the Foetus in the Womb. Demonstrated to Be by Ways Hitherto Unknown (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1717. Excerpt: ... (3) the Cotyledones are by provident Nature immediately seal'd up upon the separation. It is about four Years since that I knew the like case in a Woman, whose Lochia flow'd not for more than about two hours after delivery; though lhe made use of some pretty strong Hystericks. tier Relations, and also her self, being somewhat alarm'd at the novelty of the Cafe, I was sent for about forty eight Hours after her beingDeliver'd. I found the Person (for a Patient I think I could not properly call her) in a very healthy difoosition, and every thing that regarded her Childbirth, natural and perfect: The only thing I could observe that was disorder'd was her Pulse somewhat quicker than natural, which might be occasion'd as well from the hot things lhe had taken, as from the obstruction of the Lochia; though I do hot deny, but that also might in part be concern'd as one Reason. Nothing else was observable in this case, except that her Breasts were, at that distance from the Birth, more than usually turgid; for she very soon recovered perfect Health, and so continued. M - The use I make of this Relation, which is somewhat extraordinary, is this; that in Answer to this learned Author, we are not altogether to rely on some Experiments, and accidental Occurrences in accounting for all the proceedings in the animal Machine. For the flowing of the Lochia is by the universal consent of almost all Anatomists, and from Matter of Fact, and Autopsy, derived from the Vessels that were, before the separation, conjoin'd to the Vessels of the Placenta of the F tui which I think a sufficient Answer to what he has said to the contrary; But farther, the Separation which Monsieur Bayle soeaks ofi could never be perform'd but in dead Subjects; for what haste soever is made, we ...