Volume 1

Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

  • Paget, James, Sir, 1814-1899.
Date:
1882-1885
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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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    distributed on all parts of her body, most of them being highly pigmented.—See MS. Notes, vol. iii. p. 6. Presented by J. Hutchinson, Esq., 1876. 14. A wax model of a human hand, with the index and middle fingers congenitally hypertrophied. Models of the other hand and a foot are in the Collection of Teratological specimens, No. 314. 15. The lower part of the face, the neck, and viscera from the thorax of an infant, partially dissected, to show a greatly enlarged thyroid body. The growth is lobulated, enclosed in a firm fibrous capsule, in pai't solid and in part cystic. The enlargement existed at birth, and caused considerable im- pediment to the delivery of the child, which was stillborn. Presented by Dr. Herbert Ilott. 16. An exostosis on the margin of the bicipital groove of a humerus. It has a narrow base of attachment, projects obliquely from the shaft, is nodular on its surface, and may illustrate one of the transition-forms between Hypertrophy and Tumoui. From an Irish boy, aged 16, who came under treatment for a large exostosis on his femur, which caused inflammation of the skin and hindered progression by striking the opposite limb. His grandfather, father, uncle, a sister and brother were subjects of exostosis. His father died of cancer. The femoral exostosis was removed, and the boy died six days after the operation from erysi- pelas and exhaustion following secondary hfemorrhage. The scapula, tibia, and fibula were similarly affected, and are preserved in the Museum of St. Mary's Hospital. Presented by Edmund Owen, Esq., 1875. 17. A cluster of hypertrophied cervical lymphatic glands. It was removed from a woman, aged 22. The glands had been gradually increasing for three years, and in the operation for their removal the jugular vein and internal carotid artery were exposed. She had repeated hfemorrhage and, subsequently, hemiplegia on the right side. The microscopical examination showed no other elements than those of hypertrophied lymph- glands.—See MS. Notes, vol. i. p. 411. Presented by Sir W. Fergusson, Bart., 1872.