Uterus of a bitch
Date
April 1679
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p643
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 198mm
width (page): 113mm
width (page): 113mm
Subject
Description
A drawing of the uterus of a bitch, presented to the Royal Society by Nehemiah Grew at a meeting on 3 April 1679.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 3 April 1679, 'Dr. Grew [...] communicated several anatomical observations, with the following account of them [...] The uterus of a bitch, in which the os internum was of a very peculiar structure, being a nervous caruncle [sic] opening with four little lips cross-wise; that is, not horizontally, as in other animals, but perpendicularly; whereby the passage from the uterus is made more difficult. From which it may be, as from one cause, that a bitch is seldom or never known to bring an abortive birth' (Birch 3:475-76).
Related fellows
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
Associated place