. Diseases of women. A clinical guide to their diagnosis and treatment. abdominalhysterectomy I shall speak of in a subsequent chapter. There are certain possible ulterior consequences of tubaluiflarumation which it will be convenient to describe here. Proliferating salpingitis.—In tubes that have been long SALPIXGO-OOPHORITIS. 251 inflamed, new growth sometimes occurs in the mucousmembrane. The name prefixed to this paragraph is atpresent the best to denote such cases, because it impliesno theory. Our knowledge of such growths in the tubesis still so recent that the opinions even of those who
. Diseases of women. A clinical guide to their diagnosis and treatment. abdominalhysterectomy I shall speak of in a subsequent chapter. There are certain possible ulterior consequences of tubaluiflarumation which it will be convenient to describe here. Proliferating salpingitis.—In tubes that have been long SALPIXGO-OOPHORITIS. 251 inflamed, new growth sometimes occurs in the mucousmembrane. The name prefixed to this paragraph is atpresent the best to denote such cases, because it impliesno theory. Our knowledge of such growths in the tubesis still so recent that the opinions even of those who havegiven most attention to the subject cannot be said to beyet established. Growths in the tube have been seen in thecircumstances andwith the characterswhich I shall nowdescribe. What is the na-ture of the growths?—The mucous mem-brane of the normalFallopian tube isfolded. Mr. BlandSutton regards therecesses of these foldsas glands. A mucousgland is nothing butan involution of epi-thelium. In the bodythere is seen everyintermediate forma-tion between a shallow. Fig. 83.—Application of pressure forceps in removalof uterus and its appendages by the vagina. depression which no one would call a gland, and a deep-branched recess which every one would admit to be a gland :it is not possible to define what depth of epithelial evolutionought to be called a gland. Hence whether the mucous membrane of the tubes isglandular or not is a question of words rather than of chronically inflamed tubes these folds have been seenmuch exaggerated, the processes separating the recesseslonger and more branched than normal, but covered withwell-formed columnar epithelium; so that except lor theincrease in size of the folds, and perhaps a little infiltrationwith leucocytes, the mucous membrane is healthy. Thename proper to such a condition depends upon the viewtaken of the normal structure ol the tube. It the tube is 252 DISEASES OF WOMEN. a large gland, then these reduplications of g
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