Pathological catalogue of the museum of Guy's Hospital : bones, joints, muscles, tendons, aponeuroses, bursae, etc. / revised with numerous additions from the original catalogue of Dr. Hodgkin by Samuel Wilks.

  • Wilks, Samuel, Sir, 1824-1911.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Pathological catalogue of the museum of Guy's Hospital : bones, joints, muscles, tendons, aponeuroses, bursae, etc. / revised with numerous additions from the original catalogue of Dr. Hodgkin by Samuel Wilks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    100050. 100090. 1001. 100140. 100150. 100250. Spine and pelvis, showing a supernumerary vertebra. There is a thirteenth dorsal, having a small rib attached on each side. (This has been sawn through and again joined.) The last lumbar is also malformed ; instead of having an ordinary transverse process, this part is broad and intimately connected with the sacrum, having a dis- position to form one piece with it. Original malformation of the atlas. This was considered at one time to be a fractured bone, but it appears to be made up of two distinct lateral halves. The junction posteriorly is by rounded ends; but anteriorly, where the two portions form the articular surface for the odontoid process, the extremities of the bones are broad and flattened, and appear as if they had been joined by a fibro-cartilage. Spina bifida in a young subject, showing simply the defi- ciency of spinous processes, and the spreading out of the laminae of the lumbar vertebrae. A spina bifida in a foetus, at a very early period of existence. Presented by Dr. Addison. A spina bifida dried. A spina bifida dissected, to show the connection between the cord and the pouch. The foetus was fully grown at birth. The bodies of the vertebrae are perfect, together with the medulla and nerves, but the arches of the three last lumbar vertebrae and those of the sacrum are deficient. From this space proceeds a sac the size of a large walnut, which was fiUed with fluid; the external integument is thin, the lining membrane is continuous with the arach- noid, and between the two is some loose cellular tissue. Near the small opening on its anterior surface, by which it communicates with the spinal canal, some nerves are seen running. August, 1837. 12. Misc. Insp. Book, p. 163. Drawing 1^^. Presentod by Messrs. Tweedie and Browse.