Cellular pathology : as based upon physiological and pathological histology; twenty lectures delivered in the Pathological Institute of Berlin during the months of February, March, and April, 1858 / by Rudolf Virchow; translated from the second edition of the original by Frank Chance; with notes and numerous emendations, principally from ms. notes of the author.

  • Rudolf Virchow
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MDCCCLX. [1860]
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Credit: Cellular pathology : as based upon physiological and pathological histology; twenty lectures delivered in the Pathological Institute of Berlin during the months of February, March, and April, 1858 / by Rudolf Virchow; translated from the second edition of the original by Frank Chance; with notes and numerous emendations, principally from ms. notes of the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE LECTUEE III.—Physiological and Pathological Tissues 49 The higher aaimal tissues: muscles, nerves, vessels, blood.—Muscles. Striped and smooth. Atrophy of. The contractile substance and contractility in general. Cutis anserina and arrectores pilorum.—Vessels. Capillaries. Contractile vessels. Nerves.—Pathological tissues (Neo- plasms), and their classification. Import of va.scularity. Doctrine of specific elements. Physiological types (reproduction). Heterology (heterotopy, heterochrony, heterometry) and malignity. Hypertrophy and hyperplasy. Degeneration. Criteria for prognosis.—^Law of con- tinuity, Histological substitution and equivalents. Physiological and pathological substitution. LECTUEE TV.—Nutrition and its Channels . . .72 Action of the vessels. Eolations between vessels and tissues. Liver. Brain. Muscular coat of the stomach. Cartilage. Bone.—Dependence of tissues upon vessels. Metastases. Vascular territories [Gefasster- ritorien] (vascular unities). Conveyance of nutriment in the juice- conveying canals (Saftkanale) of the tissues. Bone. Teeth. Pibro- cartilage. Cornea. Semilunar cartilages. LECTUEE V.—Nutrition,, and Conveyance of the Nutritive Juices ....... 89 Tendons. Cornea. Umbilical cord.—^Elastic tissue, Corium.—Loose connective tissue. Tunica dartos.—Importance of cells in the special distribution of the nutritive juices. LECTUEE VI.—Nutrition and Circulation . . 109 Arteries. Capillaries. Continuity of their membrane. Its porositj’. Hsemorrhage by transudation (per diapedesin). Veins. Vessels during pregnancy.—Properties of the walls of vessels: 1. Contractility. Ehythmical movement. Active or irritative hypersemia. Ischaemia. Counter-irritants. 2. Elasticity and its importance as regards the rapidity and uniformity of the current of blood. Dilatation of the vessels. 3. Permeability. Diffusion. Specific affinities. Eelation between the supply of blood and nutrition. Glandular secretion (liver). Specific action of the elements of tissues.—Dyscrasia. Its transitory character and local origin. Dyscrasia of drunkards. Hae- morrhagic diathesis. Syphilis. LECTUEE VII.—The Blood 134 Pibrine. Its fibrillac. Compared ^ith mucus, and connective tissue. Homogeneous condition.—Eed blood-corpuscles. Their nucleus and contents. Changes of form. Blood-crystals (Hoematoidine, Haemine, Haematocrystalline).—Colourless blood-corpuscles. Numerical propor- tion. Structure. Compared ■with pus-corpuscles. Their viscosity and agglutination. Specific gravity. Crusta granulosa. Diagnosis between pus-, and colourless blood-corpuscles.