Identifier: diseasesofwomena01tait (find matches)
Title: Diseases of women and abdominal surgery
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Tait, Lawson, 1845-1899
Subjects: Women Abdomen
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lea
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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women. During the climacteric period a series of changes are effectedin the sexual apparatus which make themselves felt throughoutthe system, but the results of which are not apparent in thestructures themselves for some considerable time after the meno-pause. Eitchie and others have shown conclusively that theformation of true ova goes on long after this event, and I haveseen in ovaries of very old women structures which I could nothave decided as being in any way different from those seen in theovaries of women at the prime of life. It is quite certain that thegrowth of ova persists till the end of life, though with advancingage it gets feebler, the cells become less numerous and less mature.The ovaries, however, continue to be the seat of cell-growth,and pathological cysts are formed in them sometimes evenat the very extreme of old age, at a time when operativeinterference becomes hopeless on account of the age of thepatient. The general atrophy which accompanies senility affects.
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Fig. 40.—Ovary at menopause. (Artliur Farre.) Fig. 41.—Senile ovary. (Arthur Farre.) of course, the ovaries, and in very late life they are usually smalland shrivelled, abundantly marked by scars, and having all theappearances of having been worked out. But even then theyexhibit traces of all their old products, and I have seen an ovaryfrom the body of a woman nearly seventy years of age, which itwould have been impossible to say might not have been removedfrom the body of a woman of thirty. The changes which are most apparent are those affected in theuterus and tubes. These structures rapidly diminish in size, andthe tubes are straightened and cease their movements. Here wehave further proof that ovulation and menstruation are whollyindependent—that menstruation is not dependent on tlie ovaries oron ovulation. I think, also, that there is additional evidence infavour of the view to which I am inclined—that menstruation islargely a function of the Fallopian tubes. -MATLHATION

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