On the anatomical characters of some adventitious structures, being an attempt to point out the relation between the microscopic characters and those which are discovered by the naked eye / by Thomas Hodgkin.

  • Hodgkin, Thomas, 1798-1866.
Date:
1843
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Credit: On the anatomical characters of some adventitious structures, being an attempt to point out the relation between the microscopic characters and those which are discovered by the naked eye / by Thomas Hodgkin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    and rapid. That a large part of such growth con- sists in the successive production of the abnormal nucleated cells, described in the preceding part of this paper, seems to be extremely probable. Yet I am led to believe, that it is not the whole of the materials which the blood may supply to the tu- mour, which is so disposed of, but that compara- tively healthy blood being sent to the new growth, it may retain sufficient of its normal characters to produce more or less analogous tissues, which in different proportions may be almost invariably found pervading the mass,—as, for example, where well- formed cysts are produced, and adhesions of loose or condensed cellular membrane are established. It seems to be perfectly in accordance with this, that the nearest approach to a normal tissue is found in the membranous cysts, and their imme- diate vicinity, which membranes not unfrequently form the bed in which the vessels ramify. Although I have, in accordance with the phrase- ology which usage has sanctioned, employed the term nucleated cells in speaking of those corpuscles which present one or more brightish spots within their circumference, and have a circular, or more or less elongated figure, I confess I have some hesi- tation in completely admitting the cellular character, as neither when these are entire, nor in their break- ing up, do they seem to exhibit any defined capsule or membrane. The appearance which seems the most strongly to sanction the idea of a cell, is that of one nucleated corpuscle containing one or more bill 6'”^' «* ’ -,co« is‘)'“ l« sac of skill Of liiodofcoDsistenco ffheo viewing liiosi Ibe blood, is tbat rate to to < a distinct on those of garden This fli 'now seems ling] of pr Ills, or other ''’f'lnicli, % 11 V,,'*' > \ time 'Ostr gi'oa