Unpublished paper, 'On the existence of the decidua around the ovum within the fallopian tube, in four cases of fallopian-tube conception, and on the absence of any trace of decidua in the cavity of the uterus in the same cases' by Robert Lee
Reference number: AP/39/37
Date: 1857
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Lee observes that more than two hundred years have elapsed since Riolan published a case of fallopian-tube gestation, and that numerous cases have since been recorded in which the human ovum, after impregnation, instead of passing into the cavity of the uterus, has been arrested in the canal of the tube, and sudden death taken place from rupture of its coats and hemorrhage into the sac of the peritoneum. In none of these cases has a minute anatomical examination been made of the ova thus found in the fallopian tubes, with the view of determining whether they have the same structure as ova found within the cavity of the uterus, or expelled from it prematurely in a healthy condition.
Marked on front as 'Archives November [18]57'.
Subject: Biology / Reproduction
Received 28 May 1857. Read 18 June 1857.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 8 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the existence of the decidua around the ovum within the fallopian tube, in four cases of fallopian-tube conception, and on the absence of any trace of decidua in the cavity of the uterus in the same cases'.
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Robert Lee, Unpublished paper, 'On the existence of the decidua around the ovum within the fallopian tube, in four cases of fallopian-tube conception, and on the absence of any trace of decidua in the cavity of the uterus in the same cases' by Robert Lee, 1857, AP/39/37, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_39_37/unpublished-paper-on-the-existence-of-the-decidua-around-the-ovum-within-the-fallopian-tube-in-four-cases-of-fallopian-tube-conception-and-on-the-absence-of-any-trace-of-decidua-in-the-cavity-of-the-uterus-in-the-same-cases-by-robert-lee, accessed on 23 March 2025
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Archived papers: volume 39, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1856-1857
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