Volume 1
Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
- James Paget
- Date:
- 1882-1885
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![of such diseases as affect at the same time several parts, or cannot, on other grounds, have a peculiar locality assigned to them, and therefore cannot properly be placed in any of the following series. These will be arranged as illustrations of the ascertained facts relating to the repair and reproduction of in- jured and lost parts; the effects of common inflammation; the characters of tumours and of various morbid growths and de- posits ; one or two specimens being selected for the demonstra- tion of each diseased condition. After this division, it is proposed that the rest of the pre- parations, including more than nine-tenths of the whole collec- tion, should constitute a second division, arranged in several series according to the tissue or organ which is the seat of disease; and that the order in which these series are disposed should be the same as that in which the several organs are arranged in the Physiological department of the Museum. Thus, to the series illustrating the physiology of the stomach, the heart, the brain, there would correspond as many series, placed in the same order, illustrating the pathology of each of these organs. Further, it is proposed that in each of these series the arrangement of the specimens should be like that adopted in the first division, in which the general principles of Pathology are illustrated : so that while in the first division there will be found specimens showing the effects of inflammation, and the characters of morbid growths in general,—in these several series of the second division there will be specimens of the same diseases in each ])articular organ or tissue of the body.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2129687x-0001_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
