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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![11. Accumulations of Fat. 495. A tumour formed by au accumulation of fat, which was situated above the breast of a young woman. 496. A section of a fatty tumour which hung pendulous from the groin. 497* A section of a fatty tumour removed from the back. Series XVI. Encysted Tumours. 1. Cysts with Semi-Fluid Contents. 498. A small encysted tumour partially covered by the external skin. 499. An encysted tumour in the cellular membrane, very near the skin ; “ which “ had opened by the second of our first mode of ulceration.” [viz. pressure from within : in contradistinction to pressure from without.] 500. Oil from an adipous encysted tumour. 501. A congeries of encysted tumours which had formed between the scapula and ribs of a female patient at St. George’s Hospital. 502. A similar specimen, from the same individual. 503. A large cyst from the thigh of a woman at St. George’s Hospital. 2. Cysts with Solid Contents. 504. A tumour from the human scalp. 505. An encysted tumour from the human eyelid. 506. An encysted tumour removed from the upper eyelid: it was filled with caseous matter. The cyst is laid open and the contents removed. 507- A tumour of the same kind, not laid open. 508. An encysted tumour removed from the cheek of an aged woman at St. George’s Hospital. It contains a lobulated substance. 509. An encysted tumour which wras taken from under the chin of a young woman at St. George’s Hospital. It is laid open and its contents are removed. 510. An encysted tumour containing caseous matter; in the centre of which are chalky concretions. 511. The contents of an encysted tumour from a boy’s throat. [It consists of flaky coagulated matter, and a considerable number of small spherical opaque bodies resembling the ova of an insect.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2200662x_0001_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
