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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    1 In a female child about twelve or thirteen years old, which was lately brought to Wind- mill Street for difleflion, Dr Baillie found the right ovarium converted into a fubflance, doughy to the touch, and about the fize of a large hen’s egg. Upon cutting into this fub- ftance, he found an apparently fatty mafs, in- termixed with hair and an excrefcence of bones. This ftartled him very much, as he had always been led to believe, that fuch ap- pearances were a fort of imperfeft conception; and, the circumftances altogether being very fingular, he was led to pay particular atten- tion to them. The fatty mafs was of a yellowifli white colour, in fome places more yellow than in o- thers; it was very unttuous to the feeling, and confuted of fhortened and feparated par- ticles, not having the fame coalefcence which the fat has generally in the body. It became very foft when expofed to the heat of a fire, and funk into a portion of paper on which it was fpread, fo as to make it more tranfparent. When the paper to which it was thus applied was expofed to the flame of a candle, it burnt with conflderable crackling. Vol. V. Dec, II. S The