A short inquiry into the merits of A new discovered fact of a relative nature in the venereal poison : to which are added, cursory remarks on a diseased change of structure in the human ovarium / by Thomas Ogle, jun.

  • Ogle, Thomas.
Date:
1791
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Credit: A short inquiry into the merits of A new discovered fact of a relative nature in the venereal poison : to which are added, cursory remarks on a diseased change of structure in the human ovarium / by Thomas Ogle, jun. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * ► • r the adtion of the ovaria is here a pfocefs imi- tative of generation. Now that this change of ftrudlure is merely a difeafed Hate of the part where it takes place, will be evidently feen from confidering its effedts when it happens to the uterus', for the difeafe is by no means as Dr. Baillie feems to fuppofe, peculiar to the ovaria. If, then, in the uterus there was an attempt at the formation of a foetus, in confequence of which this fubftance was produced; there would alfo be an endeavour in the uterus to relieve itfelf of its burthen, as in parturition. But this does not happen. Fabritius Hil- danus tells us of a woman who laboured un- der this afflidtion for four years, and whofe uterus, after death, weighed eighty-feven pounds. And Franc. Roulfetus relates a fimilar cafe, where the tumor weighed forty pounds; and where the woman, for above three years, felt no pain of any confequencej and