A demonstration of specimens illustrating cysts of the female appendages / by Arthur Keith ; with notes, by Alban Doran.

  • Keith, Arthur, Sir, 1866-1955.
Date:
1910
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Credit: A demonstration of specimens illustrating cysts of the female appendages / by Arthur Keith ; with notes, by Alban Doran. 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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    [Reprinted from “The Jourji^I^j^f^tTbstetrics and Gynaecology of the British M- ire, October, 1910J. r A Demonstration of Speciiaens illustrating Cysts of the Fem^ Appep^ages. By Arthur Keith, M.D., F.R.C.S. (Eng.), Conservator of the Museum and Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons of England. WITH NOTES. By Alban Doran, E.R.C.S. (Eng.), Consulting Surgeon, Samaritan Free Hosfital. Introductory Remarks. Dr. a. Keith has kindly given me permission to publish this demonstration, and has revised the following report of it, taken from my own notes. The demonstration was founded on a series of preparations which I made between 1877 and 1884 for the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. Several have been described and figured in Clinical and Pathological Observations on Tumours of the Ovary, Fallo'pian Tube and Broad Ligament, and the drawings are here reproduced. The demonstration, however, specially deserves publication, not on account of the specimens, but rather for Dr. Keith’s exposition of his theory of the homologies of the ovarian fimbria, which may clear up the mystery about the origin of the broad ligament cyst, a subject to which Coblenz, Bland-Sutton, Kossmann, Handley and myself devoted considerable attention in past years.—Alban Doran. The Demonstration. Professor Keith, after describing the preparations above alluded to, explained their nature by aid of a diagram (Fig. 1). The meso- salpinx (1) is bounded externally by a long process from the Fallopian tube known as the ovarian fimbria (8). If these parts be examined in an eight months’ foetus or in a new-born child, it will be found that ovarian tissue runs for some way up the ovarian fimbria, including that portion where the so-called “ parovarian cyst ” arises. This segment of the ovarian fimbria is part of the genital ridge. The Wolffian tubules (7) run towards the mesovarium at the point where the ovarian fimbria joins it, and they enter the hilum of the ovary. The Wolffian body represents the mesonephron, the kidney of the fish, and the mesosalpinx is the mesentery of the Wolffian body. A process, often bearing a cyst, usually runs forwards from the Delivered at the College, April 22 1910.