Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

  • James Paget
Date:
1883
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Credit: Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    examining the parts above the mortified part, I found the crural and iliac arteries filled completely with strong coagulated blood : wo may thence infer that the tendency to mortification in the vessels produced this disposition in the blood. If the coagulation should be supposed to have arisen from the blood being stopped in the large vessels at the mortified part, lot us reflect that this cannot account for it: the same thing ought then to happen in an ampu- tation, or in any case where the larger vessels are tied up.— Hunter, On the Blood, Sfc.: Works, vol. iii. p. 30. 664. Portion of an artery with a round firm clot of blood adhering to its walls. The internal coat of the artery is deeply wrinkled transversely, and a thin layer of clot is attached to it. Hunterian. 565. Section of a large mass of laminated coagulum partially decolorized, from an aneurism of the aorta. Hunterian. 566. A large quantity of laminated coagulum from an aneurism in a Lion. Its layers have been artificially separated. Hunterian. 567. Partially separated layers of coagulated and decolorized blood from the sac of an aneurism. From the Museum of Sir A. P. Cooper. 568. A coagulum from an aneurism. \_Hunterian MS. Cata- logue.'] It has not the usual laminated structure of the coagnla formed in aneurismal sacs during hfe. Hunterian. 568 A. The end of a femoral artery, after amputation, containing a small, flat, pale coagulum, which Mr. Hunter believed that he had injected. As extravasation arises from a rupture of a vessel, it is of service in the reunion of that vessel: if there are more solids ruptured than a vessel, as in a fracture of a bone, it becomes a bond of union to those parts ; and this may be called union by the first intention; but the union is not that of the two parts to each other, but the union of the broken parts to the intermediate ex- travasated blood; so that it is the blood and parts uniting which constitutes the union by the first intention.