The pathology of intra-uterine death being the Lumleian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London, March 1887 / by William O. Priestley.

  • Priestley, W. O. (William Overend), 1831-1900.
Date:
1887
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    ERCOLANIS VIEWS. IOI form the placenta this epithelial envelope disappears, and its place is taken by a layer of cells derived from the decidua, which he calls the glandular organ, because in this glandular organ, he conceives, is carried on the process of elaboration by which materials are provided from the mother's blood for the nutrition of the foetus. Now it is from this outer enve- lope—the epithelial covering in the primitive chorial Fig. 6. Extremity of a chorion villus, hypertrophied, arid beginning cystic degeneration. The cellular structure, seen at h, is the epithe- lial covering of the villus. Neoplasms are springing from the snrface of the villus (ee), and large dilated cells (physalifores) are seen at g. (From Ercolani.) villus, or, if the disease begins later, from the glan- dular organ in the villi of the placenta—that, according to Ercolani, the proliferations take place which form the cystic disease of the chorion, and not from the mucous tissue or parenchyma, as stated by