Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12541

    Human gravid uterus

    Date
    1774
    Creator
    Pierre-Charles Canot (1710 - 1777, French) , Engraver
    After
    Jan van Rymsdyk (1700 - 1789, Dutch) , Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (plate): 333mm
    width (plate): 515mm
    height (page): 653mm
    width (page): 470mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Content object
    human body
       > uterus
    Description
    Two anatomical studies of the human gravid uterus in the sixth month of pregnancy. Figure 1 shows the uterus in anterior view with the ovaries. Figure 2 shows the uterus in anterior view and dissected. The front of the uterine wall is removed showing the foetus in the womb with the vascularized chorion membrane.

    Plate 27 to Anatomia uteri humani gravidi, by William Hunter (Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville. Sold in London by S. Baker and G. Leigh; T. Cadell; D. Wilson and G. Nicol; and J. Murray, 1774).

    Inscribed ‘J. V. Rymsdyk delin. P.C.Canot delin. TAB XXVII. Undecimum cadaver, mense quinto ineunte. Fig.1. Uterus cum appendicibus suis à tergo visus; Vaginâ secundum longitudinem incisâ, Cervicis et Oris uterine status apparet. Fig.II. Utero omnino aperto, membrana Decidua Reflexa, Chorion investiens, cernitur, cum Foetu translucente, et cervicis Orisque uterini facies interna. Pub: Nov: 15: 1774, by Dr. Hunter.’

    William Hunter (1718-1783) was a British physician, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767.
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