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Credit: Outlines of human pathology / by Herbert Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![woman but for the deformity occasioned by the tumour, which was an inch and a half thick, and two in breadth, and projecting two inches and a half pressed the upper lip against the nose. At the age of nineteen, this patient con- sulted me. As the tumour had now ceased to grow for five years, with the concurrence of Sir Astley Cooper I removed it. It proved to be an exostosis of cancellated but extremely hard bone. It is more than three years since the operation was performed : the tumour has not returned, {d. 5.] e. Exostoses occasionally grow from the bones of the orbit and from the cylindrical bones, which attain a great size, and are of a dense and compact texture like ivory. Three circumstances combine to give a serious character to this form of disease. When situated in the orbit, such tumours thrust the eye from the socket, occasioning pain, deformity, blindness. When situated in bones of the extre- mities, the weight of the tumour which involves the can- cellous structure as well as the cortex, renders the limb an incumbrance, and necessitates its removal. But the mischief does not always terminate here. The disposition to the formation of ossific tumours may prevail throughout the system, and display itself in other textures besides the bones. Number 533 [dry pathological specimens in the Hun- terian museum] is a preparation of ossification of the lungs, from a patient who died of pulmonary disease supervening after amputation of the leg for ivory exostosis. In further evidence of the occasional malignity of this kind of exos- tosis, I may mention that Mr. Stanley possesses a specimen, in which it exists combined with medullary sarcoma. f. There is a preparation, in the King's College museum, of a tibia and fibula greatly enlarged, but not appearing to have been inflamed. The structure of the bones is healthy. The person of whom I purchased this specimen, assured me that the bones were from a Barbadoes leg. It is certainly not unlikely that such a state of the bones should occur in that disease. \d. 3.] g. A patient died in the Middlesex Hospital, who had been afflicted with epilepsy. The convolutions of the brain were remarkably flattened. On examining the cranium, the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21066735_0050.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
