On the hydatidiform or vesicular mole : its nature and mode of origin / by Graily Hewitt.

  • Hewitt, Graily, 1828-1893.
Date:
1860
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Credit: On the hydatidiform or vesicular mole : its nature and mode of origin / by Graily Hewitt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    surface were without them. Had life been prolonged the bursting of some of these cysts into the uterus, or into the vagina, was almost inevitable; and then the phenomenon would have been presented of a young unmarried woman discharging true hydatids from the generative passages. With reference to the other part of the question, How are the true hydatids to be distinguished from the dege- nerated and enlarged chorion vesicles ? it must be answered, that a careful examination of the bodies expelled, by the naked eye and by the aid of the microscope, should be suf- ficient in every case to set the matter completely at rest. In the case of true hydatids, we find cysts enclosed one within the other, in the case of hydatidiform vesicles we find round or oval bladder-like bodies attached one to the other, somewhat after the manner of a string of beads, with slender peduncles or intervening connecting portions. Moreover, the well-known hooklets of the hydatids are usually found when the cysts are really of hydatid origin.