An account of a particular change of structure in the human ovarium, by Matthew Baillie, M.D. : vide Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. LXXIX, for the year 1789, 4to, London.

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1790
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Credit: An account of a particular change of structure in the human ovarium, by Matthew Baillie, M.D. : vide Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. LXXIX, for the year 1789, 4to, London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    27- hiftory of this kind, and with the obfervations and fentiments of an ingenious anatomift re- fpe&ing it; and we have here before us ano- ther cafe of the fame kind, which, though varying in feveral particulars, is, in its circum- ftances, not very dihimilar. 1 his cafe, which occurred to another diftinguilhed anatomical teacher, is here communicated to the public, with thofe refle&ions which it fuggefted to him. Though many cafes of this kind are to be met with in books of diffeCtions, yet few have ventured to offer any conjenures on the mode of their formation. But, in general, they have, Dr Baillie obferves, been confidered as imperfeCt attempts at the growth of a foetus in the ovarium, in confequence of the con- nexion between a male and a female. This conjecture refts, he admits, on circumftances of ftrong probability ; but he thinks it is lia- ble to many powerful objections. And, among other particulars, from the following cafe, he is led to believe, that the ovaria in women have fome power within themfelves, of taking on a procefs which is imitative of generation, without any previous connexion with a male.