Excerpt from The Detroit Review of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vol. 11: A Monthly Record of Medical, Surgical and Scientific Progress; November, 1876 Some authorities, as Ercolani (memoir on the Utr'icular Glands of the Uterus), assert that even this interchange is not a simple osmotic process, but that the outer walls of the villi are composed of secreting cells, which-abstract from the blood by which it is bathed the nutrient materials (uterine milk) which nourish the foetus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.