Volume 1
A compendium of human & comparative pathological anatomy / By Adolph Wilhelm Otto. Translated from the German with additional notes and references, by John F. South.
- Adolph Wilhelm Otto
- Date:
- 1831
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A compendium of human & comparative pathological anatomy / By Adolph Wilhelm Otto. Translated from the German with additional notes and references, by John F. South. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![adjecto et tabul. en. illustrato. 4to. Jena, 1803. — Hebréard Essai sur les tumeurs scrophuleuses, etc. 8vo. Paris, 1803.—Calvert D. de tumoribus scro- phulosis. Edinb. 1804.—Hamilton, Observations on Scrophulous Swellings in Edinb. med. and surg. Journ. Vol. V. p. 8363.—Alibert Description des maladies de la peau. p. 228. (scrophule cancereuse) Pl. 48.—Adelson, Vol. I. and II. (9) Dupuy De Vaffection tuberculeuse, vulgairement appellée Morve Pul- monie, Gourme, Farcin, fausse Gourme, Pommeliére, Phthisie du singe, du chat, du chien, et des oieaux domestiques. 8yvo. Paris, 1817. According to him it occurs in the horse, cattle, sheep, swine, monkeys, dogs, cats, rabbits, hares, fowls, turkies; I have found it not merely in these, but also in the lemur, lion, coati mondi, wolf, seal, rat, guinea-pig, deer, roe, antelope, eagle, pheasant, and many domestic birds.—[A. Birger, Veterinaire Diagnostik, p. 14, 3, 30. fol. Berl. 1830. T.] § 66. A third and very important kind of spurious formation is the FLESHY TUMOUR or SARCOM, sarcoma, sarcosis,' which accord- ing to the difference of the tissue in which it is seated, the degree of its development, and its complication, assumes a series of various forms and textures, of which the general characters are principally negative, have moreover a near resemblance to flesh,’ and a structure consisting of cellular tissue and albuminous-like fluids. Some are as malignant as cancer, with which they have otherwise many resem- blances; but all, and even the most favourable of them, must be removed by chemical or mechanical means, in order that they should not become hurtful to the organism; all have a disposition, even though artificially removed, to be repro- duced, and a morbid disposition to their growth is not, in most instances, to be mistaken. According to their form and consistence, they are now FLESHY EXCRESCENCES, excres- centie carnos@,—Nn0W FUNGUSES, fungi, or POLYPS, polypi— Or SARCOMATOUS SWELLINGS, sarcomata, in the strictest sense, without always being accompanied with definite characters. As vices of the external skin, here belong the various FLESHY EXCRESCENCES, the FIG-LIKE WARTS, condylomata,® the com- mon FLESHY GROWTHS on the nose and generative organs, &c. ; as vices of the mucous membrane, the epudis and PoLyPs; in the bony system osteosarcom,; in the fibrous organs, FUNGUSES, fungi; in the vascular system, the FLESHY GROWTHS ON THE INTERIOR OF THE HEART AND OF THE BLOOD-VESSELS, but particularly in the loose and parenchymatous cellular tissue, the TRUE sarcoM.* The latter usually produce tumours of a tolerable size, mostly roundish, although sometimes uneven, hilly, and extending by roots as it were among the neighbour- ing parts; always, however, bounded by a fine investing mem- brane or a layer of cellular tissue, whilst the tissue in which they grow is not connected with them, but only perforated or de-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33489166_0001_0080.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
