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Rigs: 
a. Medullar cord. 
b. So-called eggball follicle. 
c. So-called Schlauchfollicle. 
Follicles with more than one eggeell are not unknown in man, 
however. The limit seems to be three. In some animals vesicles are 
Fig. 2. 
So-called Eggballfollicle. 
found with numerous eggeells, this is 
even a normal phenomenon. The human 
ovary described here is already important 
owing to the rather large number of 
eggeells; it gains in importance on tracing 
tbe origin of the abnormal vesicles. 
The former conception of the genesis 
of the ovary was (briefly) the following: 
From the germinal epithelium cellular 
cords penetrate into the ovary (occasion- 
ally they have rather the character of 
tubes or wedges). These so-called “Strange” 
or‘Schlauche’ of VALENTINPFLUGER Contain 
the primordial eggs and the future follicle 
cells. Gradually, connective tissue penetrates through these cords, 
destroys their connection with the germinal epithelium and divides 
them into cell-groups. 
These cellgroups (Eggballs, WALDEYER) contain a number of egg- 
cells and many follicle cells. Afterwards, every eggcell is surrounded 
by a single coat of folliclecells and the eggnests divide into a number 
