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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    Subseries 12. Tumoues of uncertain nature. 539. Section of a tumour of the breast. It consists of a pale firm substance, with numerous small thinly and smoothly walled cysts in its interior, and with one cyst of the same kind, an inch in diameter, lying near it. Hunterian. 540. A tumour of the cellular membrane {Hunterian MS. Catalogue). It has an oval form, and is an inch and a half in diameter ; its surface is nearly smooth ; it is composed of a firm, nearly white substance, with short fibres undulating through it, in the form of networks and incomplete partitions. A portion of skin is attached to its surface. Hunterian. 641. Sections of a large lobulated tumour, removed from the neck of a child. It consists apparently of a medullary substance, with numerous mutually compressed cysts, and may be re- garded as a congenital cystic tumour. Hunterian. 542. A pale firm tumour, deeply lobulated, and covered by a thin capsule. Hunterian. 543. Portion of a large tumour, removed from the thigh : it was supposed to be an aneurism. Its cut surface is white, lobed, and obscurely fibrous in structure ] and at the same time, in the smallness and leaf-like form of many of its lobules, it has some likeness to the solid and compact growths within the sero-cystic tumours. [See Nos. 285 to 289.] Hunterian. 544. A tumour, with bone in different parts of it.—Hunterian MS. Catalogue. 545. The head and neck of a Goose, with a large tumour attached near the angle of the lower jaw, on the right side. The tumour is composed of a pale firm substance, and has large vessels on its surface and in the partitions between its lobes. Hunterian. 546. A tumour from the belly of an Ostrich (Hunterian MS. Catalogue), probably some form of adenoma.