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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    of the Fallopian tube to the neck of the uterus, and an obliteration of both its orifices ; whence it has become distended by its own secretions. 2. Of the Uterus and Vagina, 968. A human uterus and vagina laid open. The os tinc2e is obliterated. 969. The uterus of a sheep with the cavity of the vagina obliterated. [The cornua uteri appear to have been distended by fluid secreted in them.] 9/0. “ An oviduct.” [This preparation has no further description : it appears to have belonged to a gallinaceous or anserine bird, and that the oviduct had become either obstructed or impervious at its termination. The sub- stance contained in it would seem to be the materials of four or five eggs which have followed each other in succession, until the oviduct has become distended through nearly its whole extent.] 971. An uterus and vagina laid open. The uterus is extremely dense in its struc- ture, much resembling scirrhus; and the vagina is ulcerated in several places. [These ulcers have a singularly defined appearance. The Fallo- pian tubes in this specimen are unusually short.] 972. A human uterus, in the substance of which, at the fundus, is a scirrhous tumour; a process from which projects into the cavity of the uterus : and on the opposite side is another scirrhous lobulated mass imbedded in its substance. There is also a small polypous excrescence attached by a ' long pedicle to the upper part of the cervix uteri. 973. A tumour in the substance of the uterus at its fundus, forming a protu- berance on the outside, at the posterior part, and a projection on the inside filling its cavity. 974. An uterus laid open. On its posterior surface is seen, imbedded in its sub- stance, a spherical tumour, the coats of which were become bony. The surface of the tumour has been exposed by dissection ; and contiguous to it is a considerable cavity, from which a similar tumour of larger size has been removed. 975. The above-mentioned tumour, removed from No. 974. Its outer surface is tuberculated, and its internal structure is chiefly bony matter loosely connected. 976. A large tumour in the substance of the uterus at its fundus, which has pro-
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