The classification, pathology, & general treatment of morbid growths / by John Hughes Bennett.

  • Bennett, John Hughes, 1812-1875.
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[between 1857 and 1870?]
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Credit: The classification, pathology, & general treatment of morbid growths / by John Hughes Bennett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of all the clinical facts of the individual case, that the miscroscope is destined to be of infinite importance in pathology and diagnosis. Neither will chemical composition furnish us with trustworthy means of distinguishing morbid growths, as many of them contain albuminous, fatty, pigmentary, and mineral principles, conjoined although in variable proportions. The best classification, therefore, appears to me to be one founded on our knowledge of the compound textures of the growths themselves, assisted as far as varieties are concerned by their similitude to well- known objects or accidental circumstances, which have long been received in pathology as standards of comparison. Thus the following arrangement I think capable of embracing all the known primary classes of morbid growth : 1. Fibrous growths.Fibroma or Inoma.* 2. Fatty growths . ..Lipoma. 3. Vascular growths.Angionoma. 4. Cystic growths ........ Cystoma. 5. Glandular growths.Adenoma. 6. Epithelial growths.Epithelioma. 7. Cartilaginous growths.Enchondroma. 8. Osseous growths.Osteoma. 9. Cancerous growths.Carcinoma.^ All these primary divisions are susceptible of being subdivided according to the presence of particular substances, or to fancied resem¬ blances which have received names. Thus the varieties of the above kinds of growth have long been determined by their substance pre¬ senting greater or less similitude to well-known objects, such as water, lard, flesh, brain, &c., &c., as follows : 1. Like water. . . Hygroma. 2. 95 black pigment .... 3. 95 green pigment .... 4. blood . 5. 55 glue. 6. 55 lard. 7. 95 gruel. . 8. ’5 honey . 9. 55 cholesterine. 10. 59 flesh. 11. 59 nerve . . . Neuroma. 12. 55 brain.. 13. 55 marrow. 14. 55 marble. * The word Fibroma, though composed of Latin and Greek words, and therefore barbarous is here given in consequence of its having been already employed in medicine. Those, however, who may object to it on this ground, can employ the more correct, though novel, term of Inoma, from ig-ivog, a fibre. f Pus is also a morbid growth, and might be added under the name of Pyoma; but for the present, and in reference to what follows, it is excluded.