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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    Series II. ATEOPHY AND DEGENEEATION. [Regeessive Metamokphosis. Intoltjtjon. Aplasia, iifcxtrDiifG Necbobiosis.] Simple or Quantitative ; Numerical Atrophy; Wasting ; Withering : 20 to 36, Qualitative: witli marked change of composition: Degeneration, including certain Infiltrations : 37 to 53 a. Fatty degeneration and infiltration—^Atheroma : 37 to 44. Pigmental degeneration—Pigmentation; Chromatosis : 45. Calcareous degeneration—Calcification ; Petrifaction : 44, 46 to 49. Lardaceous or Amyloid Degeneration — Waxy j Cellulose; Hyaloid; Plyalinosis : 50. Miicoid degeneration : 51, 52. Granular—Cataractosis : 53. Atrophy or degeneration: from inaction and diminished function : 20, 22, 25, 26, 27, 37, from defective nutriment: 20, 35, 36. from constant pressure : 29, 30, 31, 31 a, 33, 34.* from defective nerve-influence : 28, 37, 38, 40, 42, 43. Senile : 22, 23, 53. [Other references foUow the description of No. 53 a.] Atrophy—Simple or Quantitative, 20. A heart wMcli weighed less than five ounces when removed from the body. It is remarkable only for its small size, and is otherwise quite healthy. From a man aged sixty-five, who died of cancer of the pylorus. He was much emaciated. Presented by Dr. Goodha7't, 1876. 21. The metatarsal bone of a great toe and the metacarpal bone of a thumb, in which atrophy has reduced the compact wall