Excerpt from The Chicago Medical Examiner, 1862, Vol. 3: A Monthly Journal, Devoted to the Educational, Scientific and Practical Interests of the Medical Profession The middle coat is made up from the stroma of the ovary. Its strength depends upon quite a considerable amount of fibres which enter into its composition. As the tumor de velops, these fibres are enlarged, and apparently it not really, increase in numbers, until they constitute the most Of the thickness of the walls, and in some parts, make quite a thick ness, density and toughness of tissue. These qualities are greater in old large sacs than in the smaller and younger ones. At the pedicle and for some distance up the sides, they are greater than in other portions, being in these parts sometimes a quarter of an inch thick, while at the fundus or distal por tion, they may be thin and fragile. The whole of this coat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.