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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    ness could be detected, and he died on the 28th. Nearly the whole thickness of the right rectus abdominis muscle was found torn transversely about an inch above the crest of the pubes ; the upper part had retracted about two inches, and was surrounded by broken- up blood-clots. (See Trans. Path. Soc. vol. xv. p. 235.) Presented hy Thomas Blizard Curling, Esq,, 1863. 581. A portion of an adductor magnus muscle in the neigh- bourhood of Hunter's canal, a small segment of the femoral artery being left in situ. The muscle was ruptured during life, the supei'ficial fibres vertically to the extent of about two inches, the deeper transversely. The lower angle of the rent is occupied by loose coagulum ; behind its upper part the deeper injured fibres appear as a firm conical body with the apex downwards. This had the appearance of a large clot, but, on careful examination, proved to be entirely made-up of muscular fibres. From a Dissection-subject, 1868. 582. A thumb blown from the hand by the explosion of gun- powder. The long flexor tendon and one of the extensor tendons have been pulled-out from their muscles, retaining their attachments to the bones, and having portions of mus- cular fibres connected with them. From the Museum of Robert Liston, Esq. 683. The texture of muscles destroyed by the extravasation of coagulable lymph \_Hunterian MS. Catalogue']. The muscle, apparently a part of the soleus, has nearly lost its fibrous aspect; its surface has a greyish hue, and its tissues appear consolidated. At and near its attachment to the tendon there is a whitish, firm, perhaps gummatous deposit Hunterian. 584. A small portion of bone from the diaphragm of a horse. Hunterian. 686. Portion of a pectoral muscle in which are several distinct small, oval, hard and white cancerous tumours. The fasci- culi of the muscle among which they are imbedded appear healthy. rr . . Hunterian. c 2