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cesses of which we shall speak presently. The subsequent 

 work, however, of Paladino (1881-94), which was not taken into 

 account by Sellheim (1907) in his recent treatise on the subject, 



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FIG. 48. Cortical section of ovary of adult woman, and four transverse sections of primary 

 follicles and of ovarian tubesor cordsof the same. (After Paladino.) A, crater-like depression of 

 ovarian surface or point at which the germinal epithelium is sinking (that in the preparation 

 is in part destroyed); 6, b, crura of depression or tubular divisions with which it sinks into 

 the stroma ; c, c, ovarian surface (Oc. 4, ob. 5 of the microscope Koristka) ; 1, primordial follicle 

 of woman ; a, ovum with germinal vesicle ; 6, epithelium ; c, connective tissue. 2, 3, sections 

 of egg-tubes of woman ; 4, section of egg-tule with primordial ovum in hyaline degenera- 

 tion and with epithelium at one side atrophied (primordial follicle defective through de- 

 generation). 



