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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![Series XXX. Introsusception. 869. An introsusception found in a lady who appeared to die in consequence of a polypus in the uterus. It is an introsusception of one part of the jejunum into another, downwards. 870. An introsusception (or inversion) of the uterus. [This occurrence took place in a young lady, in consequence of a polypus, which had formed at the fundus of the uterus, near the orifice of the left Fallopian tube; and as the polypus increased, the fundus became inverted, drawing in the broad ligaments and Fallopian tubes after it. The inversion is oblique, the orifice of the left tube projecting through the os tincse into the vagina, both of which are much dilated in consequence. The disease had been making progress for about three years. Dr. Denman was consulted, and having in some degree ascertained the nature of the disease, he applied a ligature round the neck of the polypus: this was occasionally tightened, but in consequence of the previous condition of the patient she became ex- hausted, and died just as the separation had taken place. The polypus is seen lying below the preparation. Bristles are placed in the orifices of the Fallopian tubes. This and the preceding preparation are from the same individual.] 871. Introsusception of the small intestine in a child four years of age. [There are three introsusceptions within two inches of each other, and situate apparently in a portion of the ilium.] 872. An introsusception of a great portion of the small intestines into the colon. From a male child aged nine months. [It is an introsusception of the ilium and its mesentery, together with the caecum and ascending colon, into the descending part of the sigmoid flexure of the colon.] 373. An introsusception of a considerable portion of the ilium into the colon of a dog; [in which the usual consequences, inflammation and turges- cence of the parts, have followed.] 874. A volvulus in the small intestine of a cat. [This preparation shows two introsusceptions ; one progressive, the other retrograde.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2200662x_0001_0088.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
