Volume 2

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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    343. Part of a gastrocnemius muscle, from a case of club-foot. The muscular tissue cannot be discerned; its place is occupied by fat, the particles of which present traces of a linear arrangement. From the Museum of Sir A. P. Cooper. 344. The texture of muscles destroyed by the extravasation of coagulable lymph [^Hunterian MS. Catalogue']. The muscle, apparently a part of the soleus, has nearly lost its fibrous aspect; its surface has a greyish hue, and its tissues appear consolidated. Hunterian. 345. Portion of a pectoral muscle in which are several distinct, small, oval, hard, and white carcinomatous tumours. The fasciculi of the muscle, among which they are imbedded, appear healthy. Hunterian. 346. A small portion of a gluteus maximus muscle, with a large acephalocyst hydatid which was removed from it; the external thin cyst, within which the hydatid was enclosed, is attached to the portion of muscle. The patient was a healthy woman, 40 years old. The tumour caused by the hydatid on the right buttock was of the size of a large melon ; it had been growing for nearly five years, and had occasioned pain in the thigh and leg and inconvenience in walking for six months before its removal. The integuments covering it adhered firmly, and the cyst was so closely united to the fibres of the gluteus in which it was deeply imbedded, as well as to some large branches of the gluteal artery, that after much of it had been removed with diflSculty, it was thought advisable not to attempt the separation of the rest. The patient quickly and completely recovered after the operation. The hydatid contained about a pint and a half of fluid. From the Museum of George Langstaff, Esq. 347. A small portion of bone from the diaphragm of a horse. Hunterian. Specimens of Injuries or Diseases of Muscles in other parts of the Museum:— Hypertrophy, 1511,1542,1562,1975-6,2020, 2030, 2540, 2571, and others among the diseases of the Heart, Urinary Bladder, and Urethra. Atrophy, 9, 10, 1517 to 1522. Ossification, 3367. Cancerous Infiltration, 2792.