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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![549. A small spherical cyst or hydatid attached to the inner surface of the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube of a sow. 550. A similar specimen, from the same animal. 5. Hydatids. 551. A transverse section of the base of the brain of a giddy sheep, to show a cavity in which the hydatid which occasioned that affection, is contained. • # # 552. A vertical section of the brain of a giddy sheep, showing a cavity between the cerebrum and cerebellum, in which a hydatid was contained. 553. The brain from a giddy sheep, showing a large cyst in the right hemisphere of the cerebrum. [At one part, the substance of the brain is entirely absorbed, and the cavity inclosed only by the pia mater.] 554. Part of the skull of a giddy sheep, in which a portion of the bone has been absorbed, in consequence of the pressure of a hydatid in the brain, which was approaching towards the surface. 555. An encysted tumour in the substance of the ventricle of the heart of a bul- lock. [It contains several gelatinous hydatid-like membranes; some of which are collapsed, brown, and shrivelled, and apparently of earlier for- mation than the others.] 556. A portion of measly pork, showing a number of cysts containing minute animals which Mr. Hunter called Hydatids. [Hydatis Finna of Blumen- hach ;—Cysticercus cellulosae of Rudolphi.] 557- A portion of the lung of a lion containing a hydatid: part of the cyst is turned down, and the hydatid is laid open. 558. Several small irregular substances from the lungs. [They were named hydatids ; but appear rather to be masses of firmly coagulated lymph.] 559. A hydatid from the liver, coughed up through the lungs. 560. An oval hydatid, [Taenia Hydatigena; probably from a sheep.] 561. An oval hydatid. 562. An oval hydatid found in the omentum of a giddy sheep. 563. An oval hydatid from a hog, together with the cyst in which it was con- tained. 564. Cysts formed in and upon the spleen of a man aged forty-six. These cysts were connected with the stomach and pancreas, and contained hydatids of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2200662x_0001_0058.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
