No. 1.] ORIGIN OF HUMAN MONSTERS. 167 
No. 70. 
Mole, 45 x 30 x 28. 
Dr. Ellis, Elkton, Md. 
“The specimen is from a woman whose periods were reg- 
ular until July 28, 1896, when she passed her period. In 
October she had a profuse hemorrhage, and on the 2oth, 
aborted, the time between the beginning of the last period and 
the abortion being 113 days.” 
Fic. 70—Photograph of the cut surface of the mole. Reduced one-half. 
The specimen, as the figure shows, is very solid, and sections 
proved it to be composed of a mass of distended chorionic 
villi, forming an hydatidiform mole. Between the villi there is 
a large quantity of blood with an extensive syncytium which 
forms a large solid mass on one side of the specimen. Within 
the center of the specimen there is a small collapsed chorion 
with poorly defined walls. The specimen was not cut into 
serial sections, so it is impossible to state definitely whether 
or not the embryo has been destroyed entirely. 
No. 71. 
Ovum; To: x Qo %°5 mm. 
Dr. G. H. Whitcomb, Greenwich, N. Y. 
Dr. Whitcomb writes me: ‘The specimen is from a woman 
twenty-three years old who had been married three months 
before the abortion occurred. She had been troubled with 
chronic cystitis and endometritis but menstruated regularly. 
After marriage she had two menstrual periods, but the third 
failing to appear she concluded that she was pregnant. Seven 
days after the lapsed period she slipped while descending the 
