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.

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    292. Sections of four black and brown, soft, nodulated tumours removed from different parts of the body. They all present on their cut surfaces an appearance of divisions as if from partitions radiating in wavy lines from the centre, with various shades of black and brown, and loose soft shreds hanging from them. Presented hy Sir B. C Brodie. Specimens of the Melanotic variety of the Medullary Tumour in other parts of the Museum :— In or upon bones, 851-2. In the liver, 1409 to 1411. heart, 1530. „ kidney, 1911, 1912. „ brain, 2078, 2258. „ eye, 2253 to 2259. „ ovary, 2642, 2642 A. 9. Alveolar^ or Gelatiniform Cancers. [Gelatinous Degeneration, of Laennec ;* Areolar Gelatiniform Cancer, of Cruveilhier ;| Gum- Cancer, of Hodgkin; Carcinoma Alveolare, of Miiller; Colloid or Jelly-like Cancer, of Walshe.] The disease to which these several names have been applied presents, in most instances, such nearly uniform appearances, that the description of the specimens of it will comprise all its obvious essential characters, and will sufficiently detail the particulars in which it differs from the species hitherto described. 293. A portion of omentum affected with alveolar or gelatiniform cancer. None of the natural structure can be discerned, except the surfaces of the peri- toneum. In its place is a layer three quarters of an inch in thickness, made up of a congeries of small, thin-walled, spherical and oval cysts or cells, filled by a transparent, pale yellowish, viscid substance, like semi- fluid gelatine, or a thick mucilage of gum-arabic, some of which has oozed from the surface, and hangs from it in light cloudy flocculi. The cysts are from one to three lines in diameter; their walls appear to be formed * Journal de Medecine, Chirurgie, Pharmacie, etc. An xiii. torn. ix. p. 369. f Anatomic Pathologique du Corps Humain : Paris, folio, livraison x. dI. iii. iv.