Ovariotomy

Abstract

fibres, but that in reality they resemble the fibres of the ligamentous nucha, or the yellow elastic fibre. Under a high power they exhibit numerous cup-shaped depressions, arranged in linear series, to which the striated appearance is owing. He also showed that the structure described under the title of the fenestrated coat of Henle, as it occurs in the middle coat of the aorta of the ox, is formed by the amalgamation of the network of the yellow elastic fibres, the fenestrte or perforations being merely the remains of the areolat between the fibres. The fibres which form the coat frequently have a striated appearance.-Mcnthly Journal of Medical Science, May, 1852.