. Elements of pathological anatomy. Anatomy. 4ro OVARIES. [chap. XIV. Fie:. 95. dropsij of the ovary, and there is reason to believe that they often arise from a diseased state of the Graafian vesicles. Hydatids are occasionally found in these cysts. My friend, Dr. McDonald, of Alabama, described to me a case not long ago, in which there were upwards of two hundred of these parasitic growths, of all sizes between a small pea and a large fist. Some of them adhered to the inner surface of the sac, by narrow, slender necks ; others were loose, and floated about in the effused fluid, the quantity
. Elements of pathological anatomy. Anatomy. 4ro OVARIES. [chap. XIV. Fie:. 95. dropsij of the ovary, and there is reason to believe that they often arise from a diseased state of the Graafian vesicles. Hydatids are occasionally found in these cysts. My friend, Dr. McDonald, of Alabama, described to me a case not long ago, in which there were upwards of two hundred of these parasitic growths, of all sizes between a small pea and a large fist. Some of them adhered to the inner surface of the sac, by narrow, slender necks ; others were loose, and floated about in the effused fluid, the quantity of which was very great. The hydatids, which are generally, if not invariably, of the acephalocystic kind, sometimes amount to several thousands. Teeth, bones, (Fig. 95,) car- tilages, and hairs (Fig. 96) are sometimes discovered in ovarian cysts, wrapped up in a peculiar saponaceous, fatty, or suety matter. One of the most extraordinary examples of this kind perhaps on record is to be found in the " Breslau Collections " for 1722. The woman had been afiiicted from her earliest youth, and died when she was thirty- eight years old : on inspection, the right ovary was found converted into a large sac, weighing fifty-four pounds. The tumor was of a soft, mel- iceric consistence, and scat- tered through its substance were several fragments of bone, together with a consid- erable quantity of hair, some of which was rolled up in tufts two feet long. Of the osseous pieces, which were eight in number, the largest was eight inches in length by two inches in thickness ; and several of them evidently ap-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gross, Samuel D. (Samuel David), 1805-1884. Boston, James Dow
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