Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the Museum of Guy's Hospital.
- Guy's Hospital. Museum
- Date:
- 1894
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the Museum of Guy's Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![almost entirely disappeared. The vast of the gland, which is outside the sac, appears to be normal. From ]\rr. G., cet. 53, who was suddenly attacked with severe abdominal pain and vomiting, symptoms which recurred at intervals until his death three months later. A fortnight after tlie onset of his illness a pidsating tumour, resonant on percussion, was discovered situated between the umbilicus and the ensiform cartilage. At the autopsy no disease was found in any other part of the body except the condition shewn in the specimen, wliicli is described in the report as an abscess of the lesser sac of the omentum. See Guy's Hosp. Heps. 18G3, p. 97. Presented hy Dr. Ilahershon. 1241 Peritoneal Cyst. Sloughing Pancreas. A stomach with the duodenum and pancreas. The stomach has been raised to shew in the situation of the upper part of the lesser sac of the peritoneum a cavity about six inches in diameter with thick fibrous walls and roughened inner surface. The cavity has been laid open and within it is seen a partially detached dark mass, consisting of the body and tail of the pancreas, the head of which is represented by a few shreds of sloughing tissue. In the recent state the cyst contained tv/o or three pints of a light brown, slightly acid, inodorous fluid, in which were floating loose shrods of membrane and tissue, in some of which earthy matter could be felt. James P., set. 60, was admitted under Dr. Habershon with an abdominal tumour situated in the epigastric and umbilical regions, lie had been suffering from vomiting and abdominal pain for four months, and these symptoms continued until his death four days after admission. At the autopsy the peritoneal cavity was found to contain a small quantity of brown fluid which had escaped from the cyst, and there was evidence of recent peritonitis. See Irtsp. 1861, No. 129. 1242 Hydatid of the Mesocolon. A portion of an ascending colon in the mesentery of which is seen a thick-walled hydatid cyst measuring 2 Q](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21535978_0461.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
