Notes on diseases of women / by James Oliver.

  • Oliver, James
Date:
1888
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Credit: Notes on diseases of women / by James Oliver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    attenuated or vanished altogether, but this merely because of a vital pressure exerted constantly on this coat by the underlying new growth. Here gradual absorption had resulted very much in the same manner as bone and soft tissues disappear before the constant pres- sure of an increasing aneurism. I have never at any time detected any evidence of structural change microscopically in the inner lining of the uterus in cases in which this organ has been removed from the bodies of females, who have died either during or just before an ex- pected menstruation. The glands which stud the inner coat of the uterus in its entirety, con- sisting of columnar cells lined by a basement as well as a limiting membrane, have, however, shewn marked enlargement in many cases so pronounced, that the outline, not only of each individual cell but of the gland itself, has been lost. The columnar cells appear swollen, and contain frequently large corpuscular looking bodies, which I believe are a simple manifesta- tion of increased functional activity. Prior to cutting the sections by freezing in gum, the tissues had been hardened for two days in spirit and finally placed in a weak solution of chromic acid. The specimens examined were stained in a variety of ways, the best however, and
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