The morbid anatomy of some of the most important parts of the human body / By Matthew Baillie.
- Matthew Baillie
- Date:
- 1793
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The morbid anatomy of some of the most important parts of the human body / By Matthew Baillie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![C14] | which covers the heart, and may easily be dissected off so as to leave the pericardium entire. It isan appearance, I believe, of no ‘consequence whatever, and is so very com- mon that it can hardly be considered asa ‘disease. | | Polypus. This has been considered by the older anatomists, as a very common and a very fa- tal disease. By many of the moderns it has been rejected as a disease altogether. It consists in a mass of the coagulable lymph filling up some of the large cavities of the heart, particularly the ventricles, and ex- tending into the neighbouring large vessels. ‘The coagulable lymph is of a yellowish white colour, sometimes ofavery yellowco- lour, and has considerable firmness. It fills up the cavitycompletely, or nearly so, in which it isfound; and in the ventricles it shoots out processes between the fasciculi of the muscular fibres. From this circumstance,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3327972x_0050.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
