Note 8 — PROLEGOMENA.
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The whole of the English physiologists, writers on midwifery, and lecturers, whether ancient or modern, are entirely silent on this important stage of embryonic life. They have talked rather loosely on the subject without the species of life which he must suppose the embryo to enjoy. He tells us, that even at the end of three weeks the Ovum is not found in the uterus, but how it exists during that period, wherever it may be, he has not even alluded to a single reference to facts or anatomical remarks of their own. Burns, in his work on abortion, never once alludes to