The human female ovary, with reference to corpora lutea, both true and false / by Frank Renaud.

  • Renaud, F. (Frank), 1819-1904.
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[1845]
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Credit: The human female ovary, with reference to corpora lutea, both true and false / by Frank Renaud. 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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    THE HUMAN FEMALE OVARY, !? WITH REFERENCE TO CORPORA LUTEA, BOTH TRUE AND FALSE. is FRANK RENAUD, M.D. Edin., M.R.C.S. ENG., PHYSICIAN TO THE ARDWICK AND ANCOATS DISPENSARY, LATE SENIOR PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH, ETC. Extracted from the Monthly Journal of Medical Science.—Aug. 1845. In this paper it is proposed to submit the result of four years’ research, pursued independently of the writings of others, and de- veloping facts, simply as they appeared; in order that any novelties may, by repetition, be refuted or confirmed, and that the writings of those already in print may be strengthened by corroborative testimony. The ovary is definable as the “ germ-preparing gland—its func- tions consisting in secreting, developing, and maturing the ovum or follicle.” Glands, when ultimately considered, are blind canals, or cul-de- sacs, within the cavities of which the proper secretions are elimi- nated. The secretion of the ovary is a germinal vesicle, or com- pound cell, which is formed within its stroma, as in a nidus, and which, when cast off, is endowed with properties enabling it to assume ultimately all the complicated mechanism of the parent animal. Some discrepancy seems to exist between the mamma- lian ovary and other secretory glands, in that the former has no excretory duct directly attached to it. This duct or tube of Fal- lopius is always contiguous, and is periodically continuous with it, the same nerves supplying both ovary, oviduct, and uterus, —viz. the hypogastric plexus, which is made up of bundles, partly sensory, and partly motory, the sensory and motory fibrillse sub- dividing in the ganglia, and receiving different distributions. Four csecal tubes, terminating in a common vestibule, constitute at once gland and duct in the bombyx rubi, of the class Insecta. In the leech, the ovary is enclosed in the common sheath of the oviduct. Thus it appears, that in some orders of animated beings, EDINBURGH: SUTHERLAND & KNOX, 58 Princes Street.