The distribution and duration of visceral new growths : being the Bradshawe Lecture delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London on August 19, 1889 / by Norman Moore.
- Moore Norman, 1847-1922.
- Date:
- 1889
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The distribution and duration of visceral new growths : being the Bradshawe Lecture delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London on August 19, 1889 / by Norman Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![also occur (in the order of frequency) in the ])eritoneum generally, and in the kidney, and least often, and with equal rarity, in the heart, spleen, and supra-renal bodies. I have examined nine growths in the colon, of which four were in the ascending colon, two in the transverse, and three in the descending. As these are purely artificial divisions, I shall treat of the growths as one series. Three were in women, six in men. All were carcinomata. In eight the cells were distinctly columnar. In one, in which the stroma was very dense, I found no well- formed columnar cells, but only spheroidal cells. All had no doubt originated in the columnar-celled epithelium which lines the large intestine and its mucous glands. Two had grown in continuity into the duodenum, two into the abdominal wall, one into the ileum, one into the stomach, and one into the liver. In two, small lymphatics near the intestine contained new growth, but there was no general infiltration of the abdo-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21721725_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
