Diseases of women and abdominal surgery . interest which thisinfantile ovulation has for surgeons is that the dropsical distentionsof these follicles produce ovarian tumours occasionally in very-young children; and Mr. Cullingworth, late of Manchester, hasplaced on record a most interesting observation where anundoubted ovarian tumour existed in a newly-born child,and Virchow and others allude to similar instances. ByMr. CuUingworths courtesy I have been able to examine hisspecimen, and I have satisfied myself of the perfect accuracy ofhis description. A most interesting observation is made by
Diseases of women and abdominal surgery . interest which thisinfantile ovulation has for surgeons is that the dropsical distentionsof these follicles produce ovarian tumours occasionally in very-young children; and Mr. Cullingworth, late of Manchester, hasplaced on record a most interesting observation where anundoubted ovarian tumour existed in a newly-born child,and Virchow and others allude to similar instances. ByMr. CuUingworths courtesy I have been able to examine hisspecimen, and I have satisfied myself of the perfect accuracy ofhis description. A most interesting observation is made by Dr. De Sinety, whohas been struck with the frequency of apparently cystic ovaries inchildren at the time of birth, and especially a few days after, andwho has found, in the great majority of the ovaries of childrennear the full term, or who die a few days after mature birth, thatGraafian follicles are visible to the naked eye if sections of theovaries are made. He also says that these large follicles, having 262 ANATOxMY AND PHYSIOLOGY. Fig. of ovary of human embryo at sixthmonth, a, external ejiithelial layer ; b, internal epitheliallayer ; c, vascular stroma of hilus ; d, mesovariura. x 50. arrived at a certain stage of development, begin to disappear, and that the processes oftheir retrogression andthe different phases ofthe cicatrices whichthey leave behind themcan be followed. Hedraws attention to thefact, familiar to every-one, that it is nounusual thing to seeslight swelling of thebreasts of newly-bornchildren, not onlyfemale, but male, andthe secretion of a milkyfluid. This generallyceases in a few days,and the gland remainsquiescent till thepuberty of girls, andthroughout life in boys. He thinks the ovarian activity is asso-ciated with the premature mammary effort, and he quotes Merkel( Ueber die Entwickelung im inneren der Samenkanalchen,Arckiv filr Anatomie Phys., 1872), to the effect that in thenew-born male a considerable proliferation of the epit
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