Contributions to the physiology and pathology of the breast and its lymphatic glands / by Charles Creighton. With illustrations.
- Charles Creighton
- Date:
- 1878
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Contributions to the physiology and pathology of the breast and its lymphatic glands / by Charles Creighton. With illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![Ch. L] to be separated by broad tracts of pure fat-tissue. This rapid development of fat in the rabbit is in accordance with the obser- vations of Toldt1 and of Czajevvicz2 as regards the rapid disappear- ance or new formation of the fat-tissue generally in that animal. The attention is next directed to the minute structure of the gland-tissue proper in the state of involution. The small areas of glandular substance are found grouped with some regularity round the larger ducts. Fig. 3 shows a large central duct, send- FiCr. 3. From the mamma of a bitch five weeks after the end of lactation. Characteristic appearance of involuted lobules grouped about a duct. Magnified 90 diameters. ing a branch at its upper end into the centre of a lobule; the other lobules round about it are evidently cut in a plane that does not show the branches of the duct passing into them. The lobule in involution preserves its entirety; that is to say, the acini composing it remain as closely packed together in the involuted state as in the state of full expansion. There is occa- sionally found a small growth of connective tissue between the 1 Sitzungsberichtr der Wien. Akad., Juli, 1870. a Quoted by Toldt.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21511639_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
