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184 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
At sev,en months, every part has increased in volume
and perfection ; the bony system is nearly complete-
Length, twelve to fourteen inches ; weight, two and a
Fig.
64 shows a further ad
vanced embryo, with an appara
tus of nutrition, called the alan-
tois, a, with the umbilical ves
sels, b, branching over it. c. The
external ear. d. Cerebellum.
e. Corpora quadrigemina. /
Hemispheres. The eye is very
large, and far advanced ; the
mouth begins to take the shape
of a bill, and the legs and wings
are sprouting.
half to three pounds. This
is reckoned as the epoch
of viability, or the period in which the foetus, if expelled
from the uterus, is capable of independent existence.
EMBRYO FOWL OF EIGHT DAYS.
From this period up to nine months, there is mere
increase of size and action. The red blood circulates
Fig. 65. We may compare Fig. 64 with this repre
sentation of the human embryo of the eighth
week. a. Is the umbilical cord cut. b. An
HUMAN EMBRYO.
umbilical hernia, c. The ear. The head is
larger than the whole body, the limbs are
short, and the divisions of the fingers and toes
but slightly indicated. The mouth is a large
unformed opening, with the tongue hanging
out.
in the capillaries, and the skin per
forms the function of perspiration.
Length, eighteen to twenty-two
inches ; weight, from five to eight pounds.
There are cases in which an ill-nurtured foetus, at its
more than two or three
full period, does not weigh