Volume 1

Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

  • Paget, James, Sir, 1814-1899.
Date:
1882-1885
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Credit: Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    not being able to support the actions of the strong; as happens in ruptures at the navel or rings of the abdomen.—Hunter, On the Venereal Disease: Worhs, vol. ii. p. 299. 2. Portion of ca heart v^^liicli weighed fifteen ounces. The left ventricle is hypertrophied; but there is no apparent disease of structure. From a man aged 32. He was attacked with renal dropsy in 1870, and, till his death in 1877, suflfered more or less from swelling of the legs and body. (Edema of the lung was the immediate cause of death. The kidneys weighed twelve ounces ; they were mottled and in an advanced stage of chronic tubal nephritis. All the parts of the heart were in structure healthy. Presented hy Dr. Goodhart, 1877. 3. Portion of a heart, cut transversely from near its apex, ex- hibiting simple hypertrophy of the ventricles. The walls of the left ventricle are from seven eighths of an inch to an inch in thickness, and their texture is firm and strong ; the cavity is enlai'ged in due proportion to the thickness of the walls. The right ventricle is hypertrophied, but to a less degree. The hypertrophy was the consequence of disease of the aortic valves. Presented by Sir James Paget, Bart. 4. Part of a gall-bladder inverted. It was distended with calculi, of which some small portions are still fixed in its mucous membrane. In consequence of this distention and the obstruction to the passage of bile, slender bundles of mus- cular fibres have grown large beneath the mucous mem- brane. The greater part of them have a nearly circular direction; but many, sweeping in various oblique directions, or radiating from certain points, interlace with these cir- cular fibres, and form layers of irregular but close network, like a miniature of that seen on the inner surface of the hypertrophied urinary bladder (No. 1), The mucous mem- brane is so thin that the muscular fibres appear as if covered only by a delicate shining epithelium and are prominent in the cavity of the gall-bladder. The peritoneal B 2