Contribution to Assist the Study of Ovarian Physiology and Pathology (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Contribution to Assist the Study of Ovarian Physiology and Pathology There is probably no department in physiology so gene rally attractive as Embryology. The student is drawn almost irresistibly to peer as deeply as he may into that mystery of mysteries by which a simple cell becomes con verted into a thinking human being. The study, then, of the gland in which the ovum is produced, the attempt to trace the ovum backwards to its earliest traces, and haply to discover some general law which might give the key to part of the mystery, is a study which is only too seducing, and may even lead to loss of time as great and apparently as useless as the studies of those who searched for the Philosopher's Stone and for the Elixir of Life. Some time ago my attention was directed in a special manner to the pathology of the ovary, and Mr. Spencer Wells was kind enough to allow me to examine a large number of the ovarian tumors which he removed by ovariotomy. A very little observation was sufficient to show that the so - called ovarian cyst may be produced in many different ways, each morbid' process being a modification, generally a very slight modification, of some process which physiologically takes place in the ovary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.