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

Credit: Catalogue of the Hunterian collection in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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426. A tumour which was removed by Mr. Hunter from the side of the neck of John Burley, at St. George’s Hospital, Oct. 24, 1785. It weighed 144 ounces. [The patient speedily recovered.] 427. A pendulous lobulated tumour on the neck of a goose. 428. A tumour removed from below the ear of a child. [Apparently a naevus maternus.] 429. A small tumour covered with hair. [Apparently a naevus maternus.] 430. A tumour removed from a woman’s back. 431. A tumour removed from the back. [It has a malignant character.] 432. A small lobulated tumour covered by the skin ; from the axilla. 433. A circumscribed and scirrhous tumour from the cellular membrane. 434. A very small spongy circumscribed tumour, formed in the cellular mem- brane. 435. A tumour from the belly of an ostrich, composed of a congeries of small globular bodies. 436. A tumour composed of a great number of lobules or tubercles united by cellular membrane. 437. A section of a tumour from the neck of a horse, on which an operation was performed for its removal. The tumour was eight or ten inches long, four or five in thickness, and was attached only by cellular mem- brane. It was of a very dark colour, and when divided it yielded a fluid resembling ink, which blackened the water it was steeped in for a con- siderable time. 438. A firm lobulated mass which came out of the abdomen of a soldier through a wound made with a bayonet. 439. A circumscribed, very dense, spherical tumour, formed in the substance of the kidney of a sheep. It has a glossy white external surface, and is composed of many concentric laminae, differing in colour. 440. A section of a scirrhous circumscribed tumour, formed from the inner coat of the uterus, projecting into, and filling its cavity; and may be consi- dered an incipient polypus. 441. A very firm circumscribed tumour in the substance of the uterus ; similar in structure to that in the preceding preparation, but situated nearer to the cervix.

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

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