No. 3.] UTERUS AND EMBRYO. 41s 
of figures. The cut represents a transverse section of the 
corpus utert of a fine specimen, for which I am indebted to Dr. 
W. W. Gannett. The woman died from acute miliary tuber- 
culosis ; the autopsy was made almost immediately after death, 
and within four hours from death the complete genitalia were 
placed in Miiller’s fluid, the uterus having been first carefully 
opened by a single median ventral incision. Death is said to 
have occurred on the day of the regular period. The hymen 
was intact. There was no sign of pathological change in any 
of the genitalia. In one ovary, the right, there was a fresh 
corpus hemorrhagicum. These data afford a sufficient basis for 
the belief that the uterus was well preserved in a perfectly 
normal condition. 
The mucous membrane is from 1I.I-1I.3 mm. thick; its sur- 
face is irregularly tumefied ; the gland openings lie for the most 
part in the depressions. In the cavity of the uterus there was 
a small blood-clot. The mucosa is sharply limited against the 
muscularis, Cut 28. In transverse sections one sees that the 
upper fourth of the mucosa is very much broken down and dis- 
integrated, Cut 28, d; the cells stain less than those of the 
deep portions of the membrane ; as represented in the cut the 
tissue is divided into numerous more or less separate small 
masses; some of the blood-vessels appear torn through, but it 
is difficult to make sure observation: Overlach, 39, considers 
it probable that the infiltration of blood takes place by diapede- 
sin, not by rupture of the capillaries. The superficial epithe- 
lium, ¢, is loosened everywhere ; in places fragments of it have 
fallen off, and in some parts it is gone altogether; it stains 
readily with cochineal and its nuclei color well, the epithelium 
differing in this respect from the underlying connective tissue, 
which does not stain well; the blood-vessels in the disintegrated 
layer are for the most part small. 
The deeper layer of the mucosa is dense with crowded well- 
stained cells, which lie in groups separated by clearer lines; in 
the cut this grouping shows less plainly than in the preparation ; 
the lighter channels are perhaps lymph-vessels, a suggestion 
which occurs to me, because in so-called “moulds” one some- 
times finds similar channels crowded with leucocytes. The cells 
appear to be the proliferated interglandular tissue; there are 
very few leucocytes, so far as I can distinguish ; the cells have 
