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teeth incafed in an alveolar procefs : having difff ded the whole of 

 this fac with care, le Riche found it to be the left ovarium -, the 

 right one alfo contained fimilar oily matter, and a bone in its 

 middle. 



In the memoirs of the French Academy (1756) an hiftory is 

 given of a foetus found in an ovarium. A young woman died after 

 having had very violent pains in the left flank ; fhe was opened, 

 and little was at firft taken notice of but a flight inflammation of, 

 the vifcera. But what afterwards drew particular attention was 

 the left ovarium : It was about the fize and fhape of an egg, and 

 the tube of that fide made a flight turn from below upwards, and 

 from without inwards. Its fimbriae were ftretched and applied to 

 the external furface of the ovarium, with which it had contraded 

 an adhefion : When it was opened there came out about one 

 ounce of a ferous fluid refembling whey. In this they found a 

 foet«s-a little fhri veiled, with a placenta and an umbilical chord dif- 

 tindly formed, being one inch and a half in length. The foetus 

 was two inches in length from the top of the head to the knees. 

 The reft of the inferior extremities was withered, and only three 

 lines in length. The membrane which formed the tumour was 

 about one line and a half in thicknefs. The uterus was in the 

 natural ftate, as well as the ovarium of the oppofite fide. 



This obfervation was made by a Monfieur Varocquier, demon- 

 ftrator. in anatomy at Lifle, and is quoted by Sabatier traite d'ana- 

 tomie, vol. ii. page 414. It is a remark made by Varocquier, and 

 well worthy of attention, that this woman had an entire hymen. 



A VERY 



