The causes and treatment of abortion . FOETAL CAUSES. 105 disease. Later, these cells form themselves into spaces traversedby connective tissue, and containing fluid. It will be remem-bered that the embryonic tissue of the allantois surrounds thewhole circumference of the ovum, between the cxochorion andthe amnion. Both Virchow and Ruysch have found these cyst-like bodies in the umbilical cord. In a few cases the jelly-likematerial normally present, and situated between the amnion andchorion, may greatly increase in quantity, and even when thevilli remain healthy. In one case (reported in the
The causes and treatment of abortion . FOETAL CAUSES. 105 disease. Later, these cells form themselves into spaces traversedby connective tissue, and containing fluid. It will be remem-bered that the embryonic tissue of the allantois surrounds thewhole circumference of the ovum, between the cxochorion andthe amnion. Both Virchow and Ruysch have found these cyst-like bodies in the umbilical cord. In a few cases the jelly-likematerial normally present, and situated between the amnion andchorion, may greatly increase in quantity, and even when thevilli remain healthy. In one case (reported in the Wiener , 1867) the stratum was from 4 to 5 mm. thick. Granville,in his work, Graphic Illustrations of Abortion, 1834, seems todescribe a condition where a development of tissue betweenthe chorion and the amnion had taken place. Granville saysthere were a number of sub-amniotic lumps, and that they wererichly covered over with blood-vessels. The old idea that this disease is an hydatid growth is nowgiven up, as no secondary c
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