On the origin, structure, and mode of development of the cystic tumours of the ovary / by Wilson Fox, M.D.

  • Fox, Wilson, 1831-1887.
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[1864]
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Credit: On the origin, structure, and mode of development of the cystic tumours of the ovary / by Wilson Fox, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3 courtesy and kindness of Mr. Spencer Wells, who has most cordially responded to a request for assistance in procuring specimens, by liberally fiirnisliing me with numerous in- stances of this class of tumours removed by him by opera- tion, and has aided my investigations by every means in his power. I have also to thank several other gentlemen for assist- ance most kindly furnished me in the investigation of the foetal conditions of the ovary, and I have especially to men- tion the names of Dr. Giaily Hewitt, Dr. Priestley, Dr. Randall, Mr. Squire, Dr. May, of Tottenham, Mr. Bennett, of St. Giles, and Mr. Roberts, the late clinical assistant in the midwifery department of University College Hospital. I shall, I believe, avoid some confusion in the account which I have to give of my own researches, by first alluding briefly to some of the leading opinions which have been hitherto entertained with regard to the origin of ovarian cysts, more especially as I believe that some of tliem are capable of explanation by the phenomena which I have observed. There is, however, one difficulty which occurs at the out- set of an attempt to classify the opinions of the different authorities on this subject, and which arises in great mea- sure from the want of a uniform nomenclature, and from the variety of terras in which diseases of the ovary, all characterised by the production of cysts, have been described by various writers. Since Dr. Hodgkin's^ admirable descrip- tion of these tumours, all those forms of cysts which do not contain secondary cysts or other growths in their inte- rior, have usually been termed simple, whether the cysts thus found be one or many, simple or multiple (Farre) ; but in the description of the more complex forms a great variety of terms have been employed—as multilo- cular (Farre); cystoid (Virchow); compound cystoid (Miillcr); proliferous (Paget) ; composite (Graily ' ' Med.-Cbir. Trans.,' vols, xv, xvi; Lectures on the Morbid Ana- tomy of the Mucous and Serous Membranes.