On the pathology and treatment of scrofula : being the Fothergillian prize essay, for 1846 / by Robert Mortimer Glover.

  • Robert Mortimer Glover
Date:
1846
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Credit: On the pathology and treatment of scrofula : being the Fothergillian prize essay, for 1846 / by Robert Mortimer Glover. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    millimeter], a hyaline substance which unites their elements, and a species of corpuscle which gives them a peculiar character. These cor- puscles are of irregular angular form, vary in diameter from 1 •-200th to 1-300th of a line [1-100th to l-150th of a millimeter] and gene- rally speaking, present a well-defined edge. Their interior is yellowish coloured, slightly opaline, and often contains molecular granules distributed through its substance ; they never contain true nuclei, which are so common in cancerous globules and so constant in those of pus. Acetic acid, which renders the latter tran- sparent, and displays nuclei within them in a very distinct manner, renders the tuberculous corpuscle also more transparent, without dis- closing true nuclei in it. If enough water be added to the tuberculous corpuscles to make them float, their form is discovered to approach that of an irregularly polyhedral sphere, instead of being flattened, like the globules of pus or cancer. They are so numerous, generally speak- ing, and present so many super-imposed layers in the best microscopical preparations, that it is necessary to have observed them repeatedly, and with a clearly defining magnifying power of from four to five hundred diameters, in order to acquire an accurate notion of their characters,