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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![630. A section of the testicle of a man, very much enlarged by a deposition of apparently scrofulous matter, in which are small cysts. The disease first began by a large hydrocele. The affection of the testicle was suspected to be scrofulous ; and that opinion was strengthened by finding scro- fulous tumours on examining the body after death. 631. A section of a testicle ; in the inferior part of the body of which is deposited an opaque and apparently scrofulous inorganic substance. The dimen- sions of the testicle have increased in proportion to the extent of this deposit, the natural structure of the testicle seeming not to have been diminished by its pressure. 632. A section of a testicle extirpated at St. George’s Hospital by Mr. Gunning. There was a little fluid in the tunica vaginalis. The regularity of the whole of the testicle, and the appearance of the tunica albuginea, were such, that, excepting in size, it had exactly the resemblance of a natural and sound testicle. However, when a section was made, it was found to be diseased; the natural structure being in a great measure obliterated, probably absorbed ; and appearing to be exchanged for an almost entirely new substance. The arteries were enlarged, and the veins become a little varicous. 3. In Common Parts. 633. A portion of tuberculated omentum. 634. Part of a scrofulous tumour formed in the thigh. It was supposed to be an aneurism before death. 635. A scrofulous tumour, or cyst, on the breast of a young bird. 636. Scrofulous tubercles or cysts on the upper part of the wings of a lark. 637- Scrofulous tubercles on the legs of sparrows. [Tubercles of this kind are not of unusual occurrence on the feet, as well as in other parts of the body, of birds that have been brought to this country from tropical cli- mates, and kept in a state of close confinement. Quadrupeds so circum- stanced, also very frequently die from scrofulous affections.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2200662x_0001_0064.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
