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.T. P. HILL AND CHAS. H. o’dONOGHLE. 
epitlielium of the quite low cubical type (*006 — ’015 mm. iu 
thickness) and possess large and distinct lumiua. These 
latter are not empty, but contain either a homogeneous 
coagulum in which cells may be embedded, or, as is more often 
the case, they are occupied by a more or less compact mass of 
cells' (PI. 7, fig. 9). The cells possess large, rounded or 
polygonal cell-bodies which stain deeply with eosin, and nuclei 
Avhich are occasionally found in division and which are quite 
similar to the nuclei of the surrounding epithelial cells. 
The transition between these altered portions of the glands 
and the more deeply situated unaltered or rather hypertrophied 
parts is somewhat abrupt, so that it is difficult to obtain very 
definite evidence as to how the intra-luminar cells originate. 
We are of opinion, however, that they are derived from the 
hypertrophied gland epithelium by a kind of desquamation 
process, and that they increase in size after their separation. 
If that view is correct, then we must regard the epithelium 
of the thin-walled portions' of the glands as being in pro- 
cess of regeneration. In this connection, it is worthy of 
note that mitoses are not rare in the epithelium, and that the 
superficial portions of the glands close below the openings 
into the uterine cavity are ciliated. 
The connective tissue is no longer oedematous, but appears 
as a compact, richly cellular tissue. Leucocytes are not 
specially abundant, but are most numerous in the more 
superficial region of the mucosa, where thei-e are also present 
numbers of capillaries of varying size. It is worthy of note 
that there are no blood extravasations. 
The uteri in this Case, with the uterine epithelium and much 
of the gland epithelium regenerated, may therefore be 
described as well on the way towards the resting condition. 
The uterine epithelium resembles that of the seven days^ 
post-partum uterus, the glands, those of the two days’ post- 
partum uterus. 
Case 3 (1900) (PI. 8, fig. 7). — The ovaries show corpora 
lutea at the end of the growth period, just older than those of 
Case 2. 
