The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries : (being the Hastings essay for 1873).. . The general conclu-sions from Mr. Balfoursresearches are that thewhole egg - containingpart of the ovary is reallythe thickened germinalepithelium, and it differsfrom the original thick- ^jiii^ ened patch or layer of ^i^. —section of ovary of human embryo at third month I .,, ,. (after Kolliker), slightly magnified: a, mesovarium a, vas- germmal epitnellUm cular stroma of hilus ; 6, gland-substance. X 50. mainly in the fact that it is broken up into a kind of meshwork by growths of vascular str
The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries : (being the Hastings essay for 1873).. . The general conclu-sions from Mr. Balfoursresearches are that thewhole egg - containingpart of the ovary is reallythe thickened germinalepithelium, and it differsfrom the original thick- ^jiii^ ened patch or layer of ^i^. —section of ovary of human embryo at third month I .,, ,. (after Kolliker), slightly magnified: a, mesovarium a, vas- germmal epitnellUm cular stroma of hilus ; 6, gland-substance. X 50. mainly in the fact that it is broken up into a kind of meshwork by growths of vascular stroma. 20 DISEASES OF THE OVARIES. It will be seen, therefore, that the formation of true Graafianfollicles goes on very early in the life-history of the ovary, long-before the birth of the child, a fact which was pointed out byValisneri in 1733, but which received but little attention untilthe writings of Carus (1837) and Ritchie (1842) attracted atten-tion to this most interesting subject. Since then it has been mostexhaustively discussed by many observers, and finally, and, asI think, con
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