Volume 1

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:
1846-9
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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.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    278. Sections of a large lobulated tumour, removed from the ueck of a child. It consists apparently, like that last described, of a medullary substance, with numerous mutually compressed cysts. Hunterian. 279. A congeries of encysted tumours which formed between the scapula and ribs of a woman at St. George's Hospital [^Hunterian MS. Catalogue]. It is a mass of irregular form, measuring about five inches by three, and chiefly consisting of many large thin-walled cysts. The cysts which have been opened are partly filled with a broken, flocculent, and shreddy sub- stance, like that of a soft and grumous medullary tumour. Hunterian. 280. A similar tumour from the same person. It is much larger than the pre- ceding. About half of it consists of cysts like those last described; and the rest is composed of soft, broken, and flocculent medullary substance. Hunterian. 281. A cyst removed, with a portion of integument, from the upper and inner part of a man's thigh. The cyst is nearly three inches in diameter; its walls are in most parts half a line in thickness; its internal surface is un- evenly fasciculated; and its cavity, which was filled with a bloody gelatinous fluid, is traversed by a few imperfect partitions. Immediately beneath the skin, a part of the anterior wall of the cyst is nearly an inch in thickness; and this part is pale yellowish and white, uniform, close- textured, and like brain with spots of blood in it. The patient was fifty-eight years old. The tumour, commencing with a small nodule in the skin, had been in progress five years. It was not painful till in the last year, during which it increased rapidly, producing shooting pains in the thigh, and great suffering. From the Museum of B. B. Walker, Esq. Specimens of the Cystic variety of the Medullary Tumour in other parts of the Museum :— In or upon bones, 846 to 850. „ the eye, 2259.