Syphilis / by V. Cornil ; translated, with notes and additions, by J. Henry C. Simes and J. William White.
- Victor André Cornil
- Date:
- 1882
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Syphilis / by V. Cornil ; translated, with notes and additions, by J. Henry C. Simes and J. William White. 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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![[In the lungs, an interstitial syphilitic pneumonia may be diffused or circumscribed. This lesion of the lung has received different names. Lorain and Robin called it epithelioma of the lung; it is the white hepatization of Virchow, which other authors regard as gutama. It is seen in new-boi'n children, and up to the age of ten or twelve years. To a certain degree its characters approach the struc- ture of the lung of the embryo. In syphilitic pneumonia the inter- Pig. 82. Transverse section of a hepatized nodule of syphilitic interstitial pneumonia, from a new-born child, d. Proliferating connective tissue of the lung. b. Pavement cells arranged around the alveoli, a. Free spherical cells in the alveoli, c. Vessels. X (Coruil and Ranvier.) lobular connective tissue enters into proliferation and presents a large quantity of embryonal cells ; the alveolar walls are thick while the narrow alveoli are lined, and even filled by epithelial cells, which are of the pavement form in contact with the walls, round in the centre of the alveoli. As the process progresses the epithelial cells become fatty, degenerated, and subsequently broken down and absorbed, while the embryonal inter-alveolar tissue rapidly organizes into fibrous tissue. Thus results a small fibrous tumor. In this tissue a gumma may ultimately develop. Fig. 82.'] With differences of aspect easily understood, due to the dissemina- tion or generalization of the lesion, or to the vascularity at the time of death, the same pathological modifications are always observed. In some cases there is a tendency in certain parts to an exuberant [' Cornil and Ranvier's Pathological Histology. Sliakespeare and Simes, Am. Ed., 1880.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2151852x_0407.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
