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Curatolo and Tarulli, but found differences so slight that no great 

 importance could be attached to them. 



The results obtained by Falk (1899) were, however, negative. 



In any case we can affirm, as a general conclusion from what 

 has been set forth, that the balance of evidence from the whole of 

 the researches, though incomplete and fragmentary, on the internal 

 function of the ovary, shows that it certainly does not consist in 

 an effect brought about in a reflex way by means of the nervous 

 system, but in the formation of substances chemically active, 

 which, carried in the circulation, are capable of modifying the 

 nutrition and metabolism of the entire organism, either in a 

 continuous manner by the epithelial elements of the follicles and 

 superficial epithelium of the ovarian parenchyma, or in a periodic 

 way by the epithelial elements of the corpora lutea and the 

 interstitial glands. 



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On Menstruation and its Relation to Ovulation : 



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LOEWENHARDT. Arch. f. Gynakol. iii., 1872. 



REICHERT. Verhandl. d. Berl. Akad., 1874. 



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