Plate XXI depicting the findings from a post- mortem investigation of a fatal ectopic pregnancy, in the monograph De Mulierum Organis Generationi Inservientibus by Reinier de Graaf. This is a reprint from the letter to the Royal Society that the French surgeon Benoit Vassal sent, after obduction of a 32 year old woman, who had died on Jan 6, 1669 from a bleeding due to a tubal pregnancy, after having delivered 11 children before.

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