Contributions to the normal and pathological histology of the Fallopian tubes / by J. Whitridge Williams.

  • John Whitridge Williams
Date:
1891
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Contributions to the normal and pathological histology of the Fallopian tubes / by J. Whitridge Williams. 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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    Q A represents the tube of a five-months’ foetus, with the twisting well marked. B, the tube of an eight-months’ foetus with the twisted condition at its highest develop- ment. C, the tube of a three-year-old child, showing the gradual obliteration of the twists. Z>, the tube of a well-developed girl at puberty. E and F, the tubes of a sterile married woman, aged thirty-nine years, who was otherwise perfectly healthy. G represents a hydrosalpinx developed in a normally arranged tube, and Ha hydro- salpinx developed in a twisted tube. In the first place, one or more of the twists may be so marked as to cause a total occlusion of the lumen, just as one may do with a rubber tube. The consequence of such an occlusion would be that the woman would be sterile, for the ova could not pass beyond it on their passage to the uterus, nor the spermatozoa above it on their way to the ovary; and
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