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Normal endometrium in a patient twenty-six years of age. X 25. 



The iniicia i- slightly thickened, its surface is wavy, and its epithelial covering a is 

 intact. In this section it is possible to trace the glands in their continuity almost from the 

 surface to the muscle. A few of them are practically cylindrical throughout, but the 

 majority have a wavy contour presenting a well-defined corkscrew arrangement. Quite 

 a number, cut just along their mar.uin. can he recogni/ed as little masses of epithelial 

 cells: c. i- cut longitudinally; </. almost transversely. At iirst sight, one would think that 

 there \va> a yn-at BXC69I of glands in the >ection. whereas in reality, at most, there are not 

 more than twelve, the distances between any neighboring two being about the same. The 

 gland epithelium is intact throughout. The stroma in the superficial portions is rather lax, 

 in the deeper portions more compact, h indicates the line of junction between the muscle 

 and mucosa. Its irregularity is especially noticeable. (T. S. Cullen, Cancer of the Uterus; 

 New York, 1900.) 



