Outlines of the diseases of women / by John Phillips.

  • Phillips, John.
Date:
1897
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Credit: Outlines of the diseases of women / by John Phillips. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    may vary within physiological limits from 3j to 5ij> hut in old age it may be reduced to as little as twenty grains. The dimensions of the ovary taken as an average and in situ are—length 1 ^ or 1 ^ inch, breadth f inch, thickness f inch. Each has two surfaces and two borders, an upper and lower surface and an anterior and posterior edge. The attachment to the broad ligament is by the anterior edge alone, which is called the hilum. Its normal position is a half-floating one (Kg. 18 : 3). At its site of attachment there is a whitish line. In addition to the broad ligament as a means of support it has two other ligaments proper to itself and an accessory one (the infundibulo-ovarian fimbria). Fig. xl Fig. 12. Transverse section of healthy Fal- lopian tube (uterine end). (Semi-diagrammatic.) 1. Serous coat. 2. Subserous connective - tissue layer. 3. Muscular coats (the longitudinal fibres in section and external). 4. Submucous layer. 5. Mucous membrane, the longi- tudinal ridges seen in sec- tion : epithelium, columnar, and ciliated. Transverse section of a portion of healthy Fallopian tube (fimbriated 1. Submucous layer. 2. Mucous membrane thrown into intricate folds. 3. Simple longitudinal fold in sec- tion. 1. The ovarian ligament, which arises at the angle of the uterus and the Fallopian tube and is attached to the inner extremity of the ovary (Fig. 10 : 8). 2. The infundibulo-pelvic ligament, which is nothing more than the free margin of the broad ligament, immediately below the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube. (Vide Fig. 10 : 7.) Structure of the Ovary (Fig. 13).—This consists of : r. An outer covering of germinal epithelium which is columnar and ceases abruptly at the hilum, where the change from the flattened and pavement epithelium of the peritoneum