Diseases of women and abdominal surgery . andnourish the ovum by forming its placenta. But at this stage it maybe said that the endometrium has reached the highest point of itsunimpregnated development. This remains through the period oflife during which puberty is passed. The ruin to which old agebrings it is well shown in the last illustration (Fig. 47), where theabsence of the large bundles and the thinness of the whole mem-brane show its senile decay. The fibrillar structure seems wasted,corpuscles are few, and the utricular follicles shrunken and as we might expect, the c
Diseases of women and abdominal surgery . andnourish the ovum by forming its placenta. But at this stage it maybe said that the endometrium has reached the highest point of itsunimpregnated development. This remains through the period oflife during which puberty is passed. The ruin to which old agebrings it is well shown in the last illustration (Fig. 47), where theabsence of the large bundles and the thinness of the whole mem-brane show its senile decay. The fibrillar structure seems wasted,corpuscles are few, and the utricular follicles shrunken and as we might expect, the condition of infantile uterus givesthe microscopic appearances of arrest of development in its glandularconstituents most thoroughly, and the final proof of Johnstonesviews is derived from the examination of such an example. In 330 MICROSCOPICAL CHANGES a case of arrest of development, of which I nov/ have in mypossession tlie specimen, the uterus measures barely two inches,and the woman from whom it was removed, tliough aged thirty-nine,. Fig. 48. —a section of the uterus of a woman agedtwenty-two who died during menstruation. Tlie drawing sliows theshedding of the epithelium of the mucous membrane and of theutricular glands (Sutton ) and an unusually large and fine-looking woman, had always greatirregularity and difficulty in menstruation. It was one of thosequeer and formerly inexplicable cases when sometimes there wouldbe for a period of several years total arrest of menstruation; atother times she would be comparatively regular for a year or microscope showed her endometrium to be between theconditions shown in my paper on the menstrual organs of elevenand thirteen. So that, after all, the poor creature had gone throughlife trying to menstruate with an endometrium that was not farremoved from the condition of the pigs, but with the one greatexception that she had little or no lymphatic stream with whichto relieve the tension. This adenoid view of the en
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