The ovarian cell : its origin and characteristics / by T.M. Drysdale.

  • Drysdale, Thomas M.
Date:
1883
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Credit: The ovarian cell : its origin and characteristics / by T.M. Drysdale. 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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    ered a corpuscle in pus which he could distinguish from the pus cell by the addition of acetic acid does not invalidate my statement that the ovarian cell can be distinguished from the pus cell, lymph corpuscle, white blood cell, and other cells which resemble them, both by the appearance of the cell, and by its behavior with acetic acid. Dr. Garrigues appears to have also overlooked some remarks of Lebert in speaking of this very cell, which are pertinent to the subject. It is of the greatest importance, he says, to be very ex- act in these investigations, which can serve to enlighten sev- eral doubtful points of pathology with a nearly mathemat- ical precision. 1 If Dr. Garrigues placed any faith in his statement why does he say, The only corpuscles in ovarian fluid I have found it really difficult to distinguish from Drys- dale's so-called ' ovarian granular cell' are thorn-apple or ro- sette-shaped, red blood corpuscles, the knobs on the surface of the latter, seen from above, giving an appearance which is very like that of the shining granules in the interior of Drysdale's corpuscles. But, by paying close attention, we will find the contour of a rosette-shaped blood corpuscle scalloped, while that of Drysdale's corpuscles is even. 2 If in appearance they are entirely like the pyoid bodies of Lebert, and the test, acetic acid, is the same in both, how is it that he finds no difficulty in distinguishing them ? Of course Dr. Garrigues does not intend to mislead, but his manner of quoting, so as to cause the reader to infer that these bodies were found in the peritoneum, synovial mem- brane of the knee, etc., independent of their admixture with pus, certainly seems disingenuous. Before leaving this part of the subject it may be well to state: — 1. That if an abdominal cyst should be met with which had undergone suppuration we should find in the fluid pus cells in abundance, and, in all probability, many of these pyoid bodies of Lebert. This is also true of the inflammatory effusions in the peritoneal cavity, but the mere fact of the 1 Lebert: Physiologie pathologique, vol. i., p. 47.