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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    greater part of the tongue has lost its papillary structure, and is covered with a thin, wrinkled, and polished cuticle, like that of a superficial cicatrix. These changes were consequent on swallowing some sulphuric acid. The stricture was treated with bougies. From the Museum of Robert Listen, Esq. 2299. A pharynx and oesophagus, with the adjacent organs. Below the cricoid cartilage the canal of the oesophagus is contracted to one-third of its usual diameter. The stricture is continued for about half an inch, and is abruptly termi- nated by a projecting transvei'se fold, below which the canal is uniformly dilated to much more than its usual size. At the stricture the mucous membrane appears somewhat condensed, and its surface is smooth and shining : above the stricture the walls of the canal are thickened by an increase of their muscular tissue ; below it, in the dilated part, they are very thin, and their inner surface is creased and irregularly M'rinlded. Ilunterian. 2300. A pharynx and oesophagus, in which the canal of the latter, through about an inch of its length, is reduced, by thickening and contraction of its walls, to one sixth of an inch in diameter. Above the stricture the oesophagus is dilated, its walls are thick and muscular, and a small portion of its mucous membrane is dark and ulcerated : below the stricture it is reduced to half its usual size, and its walls are very thin and flaccid. The mucous membrane at the back of the larynx is loose and wrinkled, as if it had been oedematous. Prom a woman 45 years old, in whom the disease had long existed. It was treated with caustic, which probably produced the ulceration and oedema above the stricture. She died of inanition. From the Museum of Robert Liston, Esq. Cancerous Stricture of the Pharynx and (Esophagus. 2301. The lower half of an oesophagus, of which the canal im-