Note 21 — Chapter III · ORGANISM, ORGANIZATION, AND ORGANIC SUBSTANCE.

See Waldeyer, art. Eierstock, in Stricker’s Handbuch der Lehre von den Geweben, 1870, p. 570. “I found in a fœtus, which, in a case of extra-uterine pregnancy, had lain thirty years in the body of its mother, the structure of the muscles as intact as if it had been born at its full time.”—Virchow, Cellular Pathologie, Lect. XIV.