On the anatomical characters of some adventitious structures, being an attempt to point out the relation between the microscopic characters and those which are discovered by the naked eye / by Thomas Hodgkin.
- Thomas Hodgkin
- Date:
- 1843
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the anatomical characters of some adventitious structures, being an attempt to point out the relation between the microscopic characters and those which are discovered by the naked eye / by Thomas Hodgkin. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![DR. HODGKIN ON The peculiar anatomical structure, dependent on the production of compound cysts on which I have strongly insisted, is so constantly present, and leads to characters so essential to the correct description of individual specimens, that on these grounds I am disposed to attach much importance to it; as well as on account of the manifest relation which it may be shown to bear to the nucleated cellular origin pointed out by Muller. Although I may safely state that 1 have never seen a recent specimen of any of the diseases in question, which I have had a fair opportunity of examining, in which I could doubt the existence of the structure alluded to, and though I find it more or less strongly marked in all the specimens preserved in museums in which structural arrange- ment remains evident, I cannot ask that my views may be admitted without the production of proof, especially as objections have been raised against them. I believe that the difficulty of admitting the exist- ence of a cystiform structure has arisen from the inquirer expecting to find, in all cases, a much more conspicuous and tangible evidence of a re- flected serous membrane than exists in nature, or than has been stated in my description. To those who are accustomed to trace the steps of even normal development, it must be familiar that the original type may be very much modified in sub- sequent stages of growth. This, however, is more ])articularly true of the adventitious and heteiologue](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22469965_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
