AUTHORS’ ABSTRACT OF THIS PAPER ISSUED 
BY THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC SERVICE, APRIL 19 
DEVELOPMENT OF THE UTERINE GLANDS IN MAN 
E. A. BAUMGARTNER, M. T. NELSON, AND WM. DOCK 
Halstead, Kansas, and St. Louis, Missouri 
SEVEN FIGURES 
In his book, A Laboratory Textbook of Embryology (’10)’ 
Minot, in speaking of a model of the human uterine glands: 
said: ‘‘The model . . . . demonstrates that the concep- 
tion of the character of the uterine glands, which has hitherto 
prevailed, is very inadequate.”’ Descriptions of the morphology 
of the uterine glands in the various histological textbooks vary 
slightly. Piersol (10) describes them as tubular or slightly 
bifurcated, wavy invaginations with tortuous blind ends, dis- 
tributed at fairly regular intervals. Lewis’ description, based 
on Hedblom’s model, states that they are branched tortuous 
glands which occasionally anastomose, and which have in their 
deeper portions long horizontal branches at right angles to the 
main tube. 
In the older texts (Stricker, ’73) the glands are described as 
simple, although occasionally they give off branched tubes from 
the center or just below the center. They are twisted or cork- 
serew-like, and in the fundus may run horizontally to the surface. 
The only models of these glands, in any stage, known to us 
are those of Heblom’s, one of which is figured in Minot’s Labo- 
ratory Textbook of Embryology. The model figured is much 
more complex than the descriptions of the text-books would 
indicate. From sections Hitschman and Adler (08) have 
described the character of the glands during the various stages 
' of the menstrual cycle, but they give very little information 
other than is found in the usual texts and no additional infor- 
mation in regard to the glands during the interval stages. Wax 
models of the glands in the various stages of the cycle should 
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