Volume 1

A clinical treatise on diseases of the liver / by Fried. Theod. Frerichs ; translated by Charles Murchison.

  • Frerichs, Friedrich Theodor, 1819-1885.
Date:
1860-1861
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Credit: A clinical treatise on diseases of the liver / by Fried. Theod. Frerichs ; translated by Charles Murchison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ILLUSTRATIVE CASES. 143 there was the least pigment), exhibited a deep brown colour; this ■was darkest in the nuclei. Some of the cells appeared tinged blood- FiG. 23. Fig. 23. Cancer of the tead of the pancreas, penetrating, in the form of a pendulous tumour, into the interior of the duo- denum, and producing occlusion, and consequent dilatation of the pancreatic and bile ducts. red; others were rounded, and contained brown or green colouring- matter, deposited in concentric layers around the nucleus. Here and there might be seen epithelial cells iu a state of fatty degenera- tion, some of them red, and others brown or black. In many places brown cell-nuclei, either isolated or adhering in groups, lay upon the wrinkled, greenish-yellow basement-membrane of the tubuli; at other places this membrane was covered by a mass of fine brown granules. Where the deposit of the constituents of bile was most intense, the little tubes were filled with a black, brittle material, which was only slowly and incompletely dissolved on the addition of caustic potash, the solution being of a brown colour. There might also be seen a few small cylindrical masses, consisting of an amorphous, dark-brown