An account of a particular change of structure in the human ovarium / by Matthew Baillie.

  • Baillie, Matthew, 1761-1823.
Date:
[1789]
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Credit: An account of a particular change of structure in the human ovarium / by Matthew Baillie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    mixed with hair and an excrefcence of bones. This ftartled me very much, as I had always been led to believe, that fuch appearances were a fort of imperfedl conception. The clr- cumftances altogether being very fingular, I was led to pay conliderable attention to the change in the ovarium. The fatty mafs was of a yellowilh white colour, in fome places more yellow than in others, was very unftuous to the feeling, and confided of fliortened or feparated particles, not having the fame coal,efcence which the fat has generally in the body. Jt became very foft when expofed to the heat of a fire, and funk into a portion of paper, on which it was fpread, fo as to make it more tranfparent. When the paper' to which it was applied was expofed to the flame of a candle, it burnt with conliderable crackling. The hair with which the fatty fubflance was mixed grew out of,the inner furface of the capfule containing it, in fome places in folitary hairs, but chiefly in fmall fafciculi, at fcat- tered irregular diflances.. Befides thefe, there were loofe hairs involved in the fatty mafs. The hairs were, fome of them, of conliderable length, even to three inches, were fine, and of a light-brown colour. They refembled much more the hairs of the head, than what are commonly found on the pu- bis, and correfponded very much in colour to the hair of the girl’s head. There arofe alfo from the inner furface of the capfule fome veftiges of human teeth. One appeared to be a canine tooth, another to be a fmall grinder, two others to be incifors, and there was alfo a very imperfect attempt at the formation of another tooth. Thefe were not fully formed, the fangs being want- ing ; but in two of them the bodies were as complete as they arc ever found in the (?ommon circumflances. They were each B of