OK THE i ORPUS Ll'TKI M. 133 



Dr. Henle, in his AJgemeine Anatomic, says, so weiss maim namentlich, wie die 

 Grafschen Blaschen in folge der congestion wolchc den fruchtbaren beischlaf folgt, ersl 

 anschwellen und den platzen, wahrend sie zugleich von Blutt angefiillt werden, welches 

 sie ahnahlig entfarbt, organisirt, und in eine narbensubstanz verwandelt, die zule 

 verschwindet. — 1'. 89 1. 



In this paragraph, Dr. Henle attributes the swelling and the bursting of the Graafian 

 follicle to the congestion attending a feecundation. He says the ruptured cell is tilled 

 with blood, which colours it, becomes organized, converted into a scar-like substance 

 and then, at length, disappears. 



Dr. Huschke, in his Treatise on Splanchnology, elaborately details the opinions of 

 author- mi tlic corpus luteum; but no where alludes to the vitellary nature of that body. 



Dr. Gendrin, M. Maygrier, Dr. Robert Lee, Wharton Jones, M. Raciborski, Olivier 

 D'Angers, M. Pouchct, make no mention of it — though they all enter into details. 



Dr. Montgomery, Dr. Swan, and, I think. Dr. Patterson, speak not of it. 



M. I'louiviis. and M. Velpeau, and Dr. Moreau, omit all allusion to the vitellary struc- 

 ture of the substance. 



Bernhardt, who was assisted in the construction of his Symbolae ad ovi Mam. Hisl 

 ante Pragnationem by Dr. Valentin, and in which admired work is contained a com- 

 plete deduction of the whole literature of the corpus luteum, alludes not to the idea. 



Von BaerV celebrated letter, de Ovi Mam. et Hominis Genesi, says of the corpus 

 luteum. at page 30, Me judice, minime corpus novum est, scd stratum internum thecae 

 ma jus evolutum, — which expresses, with sufficient clearness, the opinions set forth in the 

 rest of his paragraph. 



Dr. BiscbotT, of Heidelberg formerly, now of Geissen, in his Entwickelungsgescbicte der 

 Saugthiere und des Menschen, says, at page 33: 



Wenn mann die erste eutwickelung des gelbcn Korpers, unmittcll)ar nacb austritt des 

 . I ii i Thieren beobachtel hat. so kann maun daruber nicht in zweifel seyn, dass die 

 bildun? seiner masse von den innern flache des Graafschens Blaschens ausgeht. Da sie 

 nun bier die aus zellen gebildete membrana granulosa befindet, da sie zuerst als gelber 

 Korper crkennbarre masse gleichfalls aus zellen besteht, so ist es wohl gewiss, dass von 

 einer starkeren eutwickelung dieser zellen der membrana granulosa, die ich auch in der 

 Peripheric des eies noch nachweisen werde,die bildung des gelben Korpers ausgeht. 



Prom this passage, it seems that Dr. Bischoff is not tin- from discovering what I sup- 

 pose myself to have discovered; 1 mean the vitellary nature of the \ell<>\\ body of the 

 ovary. 



It appears needless to make any farther citation in this place. 



! Bhall here offer the remark, that if the concave superficies of the ovisac or inner con- 

 centric, is really charged with the otlice of producing or excreting the vitellarj mutter of 

 the ovulutn. which must lie admitted, even if we allow to that bod} the metabolic or plastic 

 cell-force, (for it must, at least, be the producer of the cytoblastem of the cell.) there is no 

 verj greal difficult) in admitting that the convex or exterior superficies of the membrane 

 maj e tin- same functions a- a dominant of the elective affinitii -. which musl he 



supposed of every vital excrete. 

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