Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c21.14

c21.14

(5) Modern physiology would not reject the little kernel of truth that there is in the following statement: “The menses, after conception, goes in part to form the placenta, and as the blood flows every month, it coagulates to form the embryo; an upper layer being added every month to the embryo; and another portion to the breasts, of the mother, by which the mammæ are increased in size.”⁷⁹