The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries / by Lawson Tait. --.

  • Tait, Lawson, 1845-1899.
Date:
1883
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    Ueber Accessorische Ovarien. Dr. Herman Beigl. Wiener raedizin. Wochensch. Heft 12. 1877. Upon the Formation and Significance of the Corpus Luteum in the Ovary. Otto Spiegelberg. Monatschrift fur Geburtskunde. 1867. Uterus and its Appendages. Arthur Farre. Encyc. Anat. and Physiology. Supple- mentary vol. Zur intrauterinen Entwickelung der Graaf schen Follikel. Dr. Haussman. Berlin, 1875. Zur normalen und pathologischen Histologic des Graafschen Blaschens des Menschen. Slawianski. Virchow's Archives. Band LI. Within the last ten years there has grown up a taste—per- haps I had better say a fashion, lest it should not prove perma- nent—for popular instruction in biology, and this tendency has had results of the best kind. Among others, it has enabled us to teach women, even girls, a great deal which deeply concerns their welfare, in a way which cannot, or, at least, ought not to offend any. It must ever be regarded as a misfortune that the most important functions of life, those of reproduction, and the most important relations of society, those of marriage, have usually been shrouded in mystery and darkness, have been wilfully misrepresented to the inquiring and innocent mind of youth, and have been left entirely for their solution to the per- sonal speculations or experiment of each adolescent. Now, by simply telling the life-history of a flower, and by the gentlest hint that what is true there is true all through life up to its highest developments, we may convey all the instruc- tion that is needed, and all that is demanded in the interests of humanity. Teach a child the functions of the anther, the stig- ma, the pollen, the ovary, and the seed-capsule ; let him or her see the conjugation of the spirogyra, and the child will be armed with a knowledge which will do much to prevent mischief both moral and physical. Between the simple mass of protoplasm enclosed in a struc- tureless capsule of cellulose, which forms the ovum of the alga, up to the complex ovum of the mammal, with its vascular folli- cle, there is a marvellous difference in elaboration of detail, but no difference in principle. The cellulose capsule is ovary and uterus in one, and the conjugating buds are at once vagina and oviduct; and from this simplicity the complexity arises only from specialization of structure, and not from the introduction of anything new in principle. In the algce, and in many other instances even in animal life, as the aphides, we have two principles of reproduction, or rather of continuation : the first is the production of the zoo- spore (swarm-spore), which is effected without the conjunction of two cells, and of which we have the solitary trace, in mam-