On the nature of ovarian cysts / by Robert Lee.

  • Lee, Robert, 1793-1877.
Date:
1860
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Credit: On the nature of ovarian cysts / by Robert Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF OVARIAN CYSTS WHICH COTTTAIN TEETH, HATH, AIND EATTY MATTER. BY ROBERT LEE, M.D., F.R.S., &c. Received Tec. 19th, 1859.—Read March ISth, 1860. Before the close of the last century, Schenkius, Schacher, Horstius, Le Rich, and Dr. Cleghorn had published cases in which ovarian cysts containing teeth, bone, hair, and fatty matter had been observed; and they had been deemed by them to be merely cases of extra-uterine or ovarian conception. Dr. Baillie was led to doubt the correctness of this view of the mode of formation of these cysts from the following case, which, he observes, “ affords many reasons why we should be led to believe that the ovaria in women have some power within themselves of taking on a process which is an imitation of generation, without any previous connection with a male, and it is with this view that I proceed to relate it. ‘‘ In a female child, about twelve or thirteen years old, which was brought to Windmill Street for dissection, the right ovarium was converted into a substance, doughy to the touch, and about the size of a large hen’s-egg. On cutting into the substance, I found an apparently fatty mass, intermixed with hair and an excrescence of