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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    which had been violently strained, or otherwise injured, where the patients had died at different periods after the accident. In some of these were small pro- jecting parts preternaturally formed, as hard as cartilage, and so situated as to be readily knocked off by any sudden or violent motion of the joint. * 308. A small coagulum of blood attached by a small neck to the peritoneum, near the fixture of the broad ligament of the liver to the abdomen. When recent, before steeped in water, it had all the appearance of a coagulum of red blood, as if it had coagulated as it oozed out of the mouth of the vessel, somewhat like gum coming out of a tree. This I conceive would have become vascular, scirrhous, probably bony, and might have detached itself by some violence, becoming loose, as the above[alluding to No. 314.]—Hunterian MS. Catalogue. 309. An apparently similar growth attached to the Fallopian tube of a calf. V Hunterian. 310. Section of a small round flattened tumour, attached by a small pedicle to the interior of the abdomen of an ox. ' Hunterian. 311. The other section of the same tumour. Hunterian. 312. A small round fatty tumour, attached by a short narrow pedicle to the omentum of an ox. Hunterian. 313. Sections of a small round tumour, found loose in the cavity of the abdomen of a lion. It consists of a pale firm substance, nearly like fibro-cartilage, enclosed in a thin capsule. Hunterian- 314. Sections of a small flattened oval tumour, found loose in the abdomen of the gentleman from whom the enlarged spleen (No. 1480) was taken. Like that last described, it is of firm, apparently fibrous, texture; and is enclosed in a thin smooth capsule, the exterior of which is polished like peritoneum. Hunterian. * Extracted from ' Some Observations on the loose Cartilages found in Joints; by Sir Everard Home, Bart., from materials furnished by Mr. Hunter:' in the Transactions of a Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge, vol. i. p. 229, 1793; and in Hunter's Works, vol. iii. p. 625.