Volume 3

Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

  • Royal College of Surgeons of England. Museum
Date:
1882-
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Credit: Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    long thick spines and nodules of ivory. It is of an irregular crescentic form, and at one part measures ten inches in circumference. Presented by Thomas Chevalier, Esq. 2153. Portion of the inner wall of the pulp-cavity of an Elephant’s tusk covered with irregular growths of ivory. Purchased, 1872. 2153 A. The root of a very large Elephant’s tusk, which is in part filled with rough and nodulated masses of ivory. Absorption of Fangs. 2154. Carious molar and bicuspid teeth, showing absorption of the ends of the fangs, most marked in one molar. Presented by S. James A. Salter, Esq., 1881. Hypertrophy of the Fangs.* 2155. u A [bicuspid] tooth, swelled in its body, which gave great pain, and made the antrum suspected.”—Hunterian MS. Catalogue. The enlargement is due to an hypertrophy of the cementum, and is commonly known as dental exostosis. 2156. A molar tooth, of which the fang is enlarged, especially at its extremity, and has a nodulated bulb-like form. Hunterian. * “ Another disease of the teeth is a swelling of the fang, which most probably arises from inflammation, while the body continues sound, and is of that kind which in any other bone would be called a spina ventosa. It gives considerable pain, and nothing can be seen externally. The pam may either be in the tooth itself or the alveolar process, as it is obliged to give way to the increase of the fang.”—Hunter : On the Teeth ; Works, vol. ii. p. 71.