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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![b. By means of Granulations. 250. A finger; to show the cartilage of the first joint absorbed, and granulations arising from the denuded bone. 251. Granulations upon the inner surface of a patella. [They extend into a sinus which apparently communicated with the cavity of the joint.] 2. Suppuration and Ulceration of Joints. 252. The right hip-joint, from a young subject. The cartilaginous surfaces of both the femur and os innominatum are for the most part absorbed. The cavity of the acetabulum is enlarged, and the head of the femur is diminished, from ulceration. The ilium, ischium, and pubis, as well as the periosteum, are separated in consequence of suppuration. Coagu- lable lymph is thrown out in spots. 253. The cavity of the knee-joint very much enlarged, and its internal surface lined with coagulated lymph from inflammation. 254. The knee-joint of an aged woman who died in St. George’s Hospital in 1759. There was a loose flattened substance in the joint, about the size of a hazel nut. The cartilages are eroded from the lower end of the femur and from the patella in parallel grooves: the synovia was thick, and apparently mixed with purulent matter. 255. The knee-joint of a boy who had a white-swelling which came to suppura- tion. Bristles are placed to point out the extent of the suppuration. Part of the cartilage is absorbed from the condyles of the femur. 256. A knee-joint, showing the whole of its interior surface lined by coagu- lated lymph, in which bristles are placed. 257. A patella from which a portion of the cartilage has been absorbed, and a layer of coagulated lymph deposited in its place. 258. The upper extremity of a tibia, to show ulceration of its cartilage, and a small rounded portion of the head of the bone exfoliating. 259. The upper extremity of a tibia to show ulceration of its cartilage. 260. An astragalus with a portion of its superior surface absorbed, and the bone smooth at that part. 261. An astragalus having the cartilage of its superior surface ulcerated. The bone is injected to show the vascularity of its denuded surface.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2200662x_0001_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
