Volume 2
A system of operative surgery, founded on the basis of anatomy / by Charles Bell.
- Charles Bell
- Date:
- 1814
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Credit: A system of operative surgery, founded on the basis of anatomy / by Charles Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![J2S IV. EXCRESCENTIiE. Polypus. — A pendulous tumour from a canal or cavity. Cartilaginous tumours appended to the inner surface of the capsular ligaments of joints. A question still remains to be decided ;—are the loose cartilages in the knee-joint of the same origin with those attached to cartilaginous bodies ? If it is concluded that they are, and that they are excrescences of the natural cartilage, how do we account for bodies of the same kind being found loose in the vaginal coat of the testicle? Veruca. — A warty, cutaneous excrescence. Exostosis. — The excrescence from a bone where there is no general enlargement. Nodus. — The thickening of the membranes which coyer a bone ; it is often the same disease with the last. Fungus. — This term implies the soft excres- cence from a surface ; as of a bone, or of the dura mater. Njevus. — (Na>vus maternus.J A flat conge- nital excrescence of the skin. Sometimes rough and warty ; often with hair upon it; of a purple, reddish, blue, or black, colour. It is only in common language that we cap call a corn, (claws,J a tumour ; for it is a mere effect of pressure. There is no diseased action, but the continuation of a natural action ; an action of a kind in other circumstances to preserve the body. The accumulation of the layers of the cuticle on c ]2 the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21536387_0002_0168.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
