320 EDGAR ALLEN 
The glands show a minimum of function, as judged by the 
slight distention of their ducts. A few mitoses are scattered 
through their epithelium. Leucocytes in small numbers are 
present between and beneath their cells, but seem to exert little 
cytolytic action. 
The oviducts, especially the segments adjacent to the uterus, 
are distended. ‘The epithelium is high columnar and contains 
a few vacuolated cells in the non-ciliated portions, while in the 
ciliated section the extrusion of nuclei is marked. 
There are seven ova present in the tubes. Some of them 
show signs of degeneration. The membranes are lacking and 
the chromatin material has disappeared. ‘Two ova in the right 
oviduct still show the second maturation spindle and one has a 
polar body in which separate chromosomes can be distinguished. 
These two ova are in the second segment of the oviducts, while 
all the rest from this ovulation are in the third. 
Most noticeable in the examination of the left ovary was the 
unusually numerous follicles of moderately large size, ranging 
from an average diameter of 0.32 mm. to 0.4 mm. There are 
twelve of these in the left ovary and seven in the right. The 
liquor folliculi is well formed, the cumuli are intact, and the nuclei 
of the ova resting. One of these large normal follicles in the 
right ovary is sausage shaped and contains two ova, each with 
its separate cumulus and its resting nucleus. . 
Twenty to thirty corpora lutea are present in both ovaries. 
The most recent set are blue staining, but are not all at the same 
stage of development. Two in the left, and three in the right 
ovary have small central lakes, and two of those in the right 
ovary contain erythrocytes plainly indicative of ‘‘bleeding 
into the central cavity.’’ The shoots from the cells of the theca 
interna have grown completely through the layers of the granu- 
losa in these five corpora and have formed five connective-tissue 
reticula around the central lakes of liquor. In the other two 
recent corpora in the right ovary, the central lakes are much 
larger and the connective-tissue sprouts have not yet grown 
through the granulosa cells. There is no distinguishable histo- 
logical difference in the luteal cells of the two stages. Five of this 
