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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![5. Of the Eye. 675. A vertical section of the left eye of a female child about three years of age; in the centre of which, and between its coats, is a morbid deposit. 676. The other section of the same eye, having the before-mentioned substance removed from the anterior part of the cavity, the better to expose a spherical tumour which occupies the posterior part. It also shows more clearly how far the choroid coat has been separated from the sclerotic by the deposition of the new-formed substance. 677* The right eye of the same child, with the optic nerve and commissure, a portion of the brain, and a tumour which formed in, and filled the orbit after the operation for the removal of the left eye. The child survived the operation about ten months. 678. A cancerous eye. 679. A cancerous eye, where the whole of its cavity is filled with a brownish spongy mass. Removed by operation from a female patient in St. George’s Hospital, Nov. 5th, 1781. A violent haemorrhage soon suc- ceeded ; she became delirious, and died ten days after the operation. The state of the brain and optic nerve of this patient may be seen in the next preparation. 680. Part of the brain, and optic nerves belonging to the subject from whom the preceding cancerous eye was taken ; to show that the optic nerve of that side is very much diminished in size. [See also No. 1045.] 681. A fungous tumour pressing upon the eye. Series XIX. Diseases resembling Scrofula and Cancer. 682. A spherical tumour which formed in the gland of the breast, distinct in its structure from the surrounding parts. 683. A tumour in the breast, neither cancerous nor scrofulous ; but completely distinct, and of a separate structure from the surrounding parts. 684. A portion of the lung of a lady who had a cancer of the right breast. It is filled with large white tubercles of various sizes. 685. A portion of rib from the left side of a gentleman aged forty-six, in whom](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2200662x_0001_0068.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
