On the origin, structure, and mode of development of the cystic tumours of the ovary / by Wilson Fox.

  • Fox, Wilson.
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1864
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    be stated that, after the researches of Gairdner,1 Johnson,3 and Otto Beckmann8 on the origin of cysts in this organ from the renal tubules, the number of cases in which we have to resort to the cell theory to explain their formation must be extremely small; while those in the thyroid have been fully elucidated by Dr. Billroth,'1 and referred by him to the same type of formation (viz., the constriction of por- tions of tubular structures, through a return to the same embryonic conditions of growth5) as that by which the primary structures of the gland were first formed j and though opinions may still be divided on the nature of the so-called hydated mole, those given by Gierse,6 Dr. Graily Hewitt,7 and Virchow,8 appear more in accordance with the facts of the case than the view of the origin of these structures from individual cells, as propounded by Mettenheimer,9 and accepted by Mr. Paget.10 I must confess that I have never met with any facts tending to support this theory of cyst formation ; and with regard to the ovary, I shall have shortly to give an entirely different account of the origin of the greater part of the cysts found in it, both in the more complex forms, and also of the small cysts occurring in the secondary papillary and dendritic growths which spring from the interior of large cysts, and which latter, though at first sight appearing most strongly to bear out Rokitansky's views of this mode 1 'Ed. Med. Surg. Journ.,' 1853. a cMed.-Chir. Trans./ vol. xxx. 3 ' Virek. Arch.,' vol. ix. 4 Ueber Fcetales Drusengewebe in Scbildrusen Gescbwiilsten; 'Muller's Arcbiv,' 1856, p. 144. 5 Kemak, 'Untersuchungen ueber die Entwickelung der Wirbelthiere,' 1853, p. 122; Kolliker, ' Microscop. Anat.,' vol. ii, p. 332 ; ' Entwicke- lungs-geschicbte,' 1861, p. 392. 6 ' Verbandlungen der Gesellscb. fur Geburtshiilfe,' 1847, p. 126 et seq. 7 ' Trans. Obst. Soc. Lond.,' vol. i. 8 'Die Krankhaften Geschwiilste,' 1863, p. 410 et seq. 0 ' Mailer's Arcbiv,' 1850. V 'Lect. Surg. Path.,' 1863, p. 420.