Volume 3

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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    got bit in the hand ; however, at about seven o'clock in the evening ho was seized, and carried to the Infirmary at Marylebone, and strapped down to the bed, and begged to be left alone, as he wdshed to be quiet. He then complained much of the tightness across his breast from the straps. About nine, some people went to see him, and he spoke to them; about seven on the Friday morning he was found dead. On the same day about one o'clock I opened his fauces, throat, and oesophagus, and found nothing remarkable or praetematural. The salivary glands [and] the muscles of these parts were per- fectly sound, nor was there anything remarkable in the part that had been bitten. Prom all the symptoms, and from nothing appearing diseased after death, this disease would seem entirely nervous. It is similar in many effects to nux vomica on a dog.— Hunterian MS. Cases in Surgery, j). 316. Pharyngeal Pouch. 2291. A pharynx and oesophagus, with the larynx and trachea. At the lower and posterior part of the pharynx there is an oval pouch, possibly of congenital origin, about two inches long, and an inch in diameter, formed by a hernia-like dilatation of the mucous membrane. The pouch opens with a wide orifice into the cavity of the pharynx, and is lined with a continuation of the mucous membrane, but the muscular coat is not continued over it. All the adjacent tissues are healthy. The larynx and epiglottis are very large. The patient was a bishop, 90 years old. The pouch at last used to receive the greater part of the food, and when it was filled the patient was in the habit of pressing up the side of the neck, 80 as t;o empty the pouch into the oesophagus. He had also long suffered from a fistulous opening into the gall-bladder, tlirough which two gall-stones had been discharged externally. Presented by William Guy, Esq. Inflammation of the CEsophagus. 2292. A larynx, pharynx, and oesophagus showing the effect of acute inflammation of the mucous membrane of the ceso- phagus, probably diphtheritic. The surface is discoloured by the extravasation of blood. The mucous membrane is