Volume 1
Catalogue of the Hunterian collection in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London.
- Royal College of Surgeons of England. Museum
- Date:
- 1830-1831
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Catalogue of the Hunterian collection in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![64. A section of a nerve from the leg of a man who had a very diseased tibia. Violent inflammation came on, of which he died. This nerve had be- come (apparently) extremely thickened and hard, and also very vascular; and the injection having succeeded well, the nerve was sliced down in the direction of its fibres, then dried, and put into oil of turpentine. 65. The other section of the same nerve. 5. Internal Parts not inflaming so readily as External. 66. A needle passing from the second cavity of the stomach of an antelope through the diaphragm and pericardium. 67- A portion of the second cavity of the stomach of an ox, in which may be observed two large pins perforating the septa of the cells without having occasioned any visible inflammation. 68. A portion of the second cavity of the stomach of an ox, in which a nail has perforated the septa of the cells in a similar manner, without having pro- duced any visible effects of inflammation. 69. A portion of the second cavity of the stomach of a camel, having portions of iron-wire piercing the subdivisions of the cells, without having pro- duced any signs of inflammation. Jttc-rlLua. 70. A portion of the stomach of a cod-fish (Gadus Merlangus) which has a sharp spiny fish-bone protruding through its coats. Part of the protruded surface of the bone still shows the effects of the adhesive inflammation which attended its progress. 6. Internal Passages for extraneous Matter throwing out Coagulable Lymph ivhen the Inflammation is violent. 71. A portion of jejunum inflamed and thickened, with coagulable lymph thrown out upon its internal surface. About eighteen inches of the in- testine were in a similar state. The patient died of cancer of the stomach. The symptoms had continued for twenty-five years. [See No. 656.] 72. A portion of inflamed intestine. Coagulable lymph is deposited on its inner surface. The intestine is considerably thickened. 73. A portion of human small intestine which had been strangulated. Coagu- lable lymph is thrown out, both on the internal and external surface of the intestine. Ulceration has taken place in the mesentery.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2200662x_0001_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
