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
Catalogue details

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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    PATHOLOGICAL CATALOGUE Division I. GENERAL PATHOLOGY/' Series I. HYPERTROPHY. [Hyperplasia. AuasiENTED Nutrition.] From increased exercise of function : 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, &c. From increased supply of material for growth or secretion : 6, 8, 9, 11,12. From increased blood-supply: 8, 9, 11. From or with increased supply or retention of lymph : 12. From occasional pressure: 9. Compensatory or vicarious : 6. From mechanical or chemical irritation : 9, 10. Inflammatory: 10, 11. Congenital: 13, 14, 15. Hereditary: 16. From causes yet unknown: 17, 18, 19. Adapted enlargement of blood-vessels: 6,7. [Other references follow the description of No. 19.] A urinaiy bladder and part of a penis. The bladder has been laid open from the front; the urethra from behind. There is a narrow stricture of the urethra just in front of its membranous portion, and all the canal behind it is contracted, wrinkled and superficially ulcerated. In con- sequence of this obstruction to the passage of urine the bladder is hypertrophied. Its cavity is very large, measuring
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