No. 1.] ORIGIN OF HUMAN MONSTERS. 203 
No. 141. 
Ovum, 40 x 30 x 20 mm.; embryo, 8 mm. 
Dr. West, Bellaire, Ohio. 
“The specimen is from a woman, a mother of nine children, 
who has always been healthy until about ten years ago. 
From this time her health gradually became worse and worse. 
She is extremely neurasthenic. Stomach is dilated, digestion 
poor. Bladder irritable and urine scanty. Uterus large, thick 
and retroverted ; leucorrhcea. The uterus is about three times 
its normal size and has a number of cysts in the cervix. There 
were several earlier abortions, the one before this, which took 
Fic. 141—Piece of chorion with dense magma and misshapen embryo. 
Slightly reduced. 
place December 13, 1897 (No. 110), having been sent to you. 
The last period began on October 27, 1808, and the abortion 
followed on January 13.” 
The chorion is fleshy, like No. 110, with but few villi, and 
within the ccelom there is a great quantity of magma reticule 
and a dissociated embryo about four weeks old. 
The sections show that the chorion and villi are matted 
together and contain but few blood-vessels. The syncytium 
is very extensive, and where it is in large masses the most 
central cells are necrotic. The mesoderm of the chorion is 
fibrous and hypertrophic. There is a considerable quantity 
of mucus or fibrin, rich in leucocytes, between the villi. This 
condition may have been more extensive elsewhere, as only 
the chorion in the neighborhood of the embryo was examined. 
