Catalogue of the Hunterian collection in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London.

  • Royal College of Surgeons in London. Museum.
Date:
1830-1831
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Credit: Catalogue of the Hunterian collection in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    43. Several convolutions of the intestines of a young woman who died in con- sequence of violent inflammation of the bowels, which occasioned them to adhere almost universally. They are injected, and show that the adhesive matter had become vascular. 44. A very firm coat of coagulated lymph from the cavity of the human abdo- men, in consequence of peritonaeal inflammation coming on after tapping. The patient died on the eighth day after the operation. [This coagulum not only lined the parietes of the abdomen, but processes were continued from its inner surface, between the convolutions of the intestines, to a considerable extent.] 45. A portion of an exceedingly thick layer of coagulated lymph, thrown out in consequence of inflammation, which was found covering the intestines and other viscera of a female aged sixteen. 46. A portion of the colon of a female sixteen years of age. The intestine is adhering to the peritonaeum. The latter is very much thickened, in con- sequence of the effusion of coagulable lymph, so as to have appeared like the abdominal muscles. 47. The uterus of a female sixteen years of age, in whom the cavity of the abdo- men was filled with coagulated lymph uniting the different parts together. In this preparation the uterus is shown imbedded in that mass. [It is probable that the three preceding preparations were from the same individual.] 48. Adhesions of two portions of the mesentery of a turtle, leaving a space be- tween them. 49. A portion of intestine with firm adhesions, which are much elongated in consequence of the peristaltic motion. 50. Tendons united by the adhesive inflammation. 3. Firm Adhesions of Foreign Parts. 51. The spur of a chieken transplanted and uniting by the first intention to the leg of another chicken. The union had not yet become very firm. This experiment was frequently unsuccessful, in consequence of the nature of the parts being unfavourable for such union. 52. A spur taken from the leg of a young cock, and transplanted on the leg of