Descriptive catalogue of the museum illustrative of Dr Evory Kennedy's lectures on midwifery, and the diseases of women and children.

  • Kennedy Evory, 1806-1886.
Date:
1840
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Credit: Descriptive catalogue of the museum illustrative of Dr Evory Kennedy's lectures on midwifery, and the diseases of women and children. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    the fundus of the uterus may be seen a smaller tuber- cle, which has been divided, and partly tximed out of its investing cellular cyst. The greater firmness of textiu-e which is generally evident in the smaller tu- bercles, is very well marked in this case. E. a. 9. Another Uterus afi^ected with Tubercular disease. Many of the tumours were in this case developed imme- diately under the peritoneal covering of the uterus; hence the irregularity of its surface. The uterus and vagina have been laid open, and from the upper part of the uterus a pyriform pedunculated tumour, of a more fieshy structure than a tubercle (a polypus), projects in- to the cavity of the vagina, which it almost completely fills, and when the patient was admitted, this tumour projected externally. The patient died of peritoneal inflammation two or three days after admission into the hospital. See Case-Book, March 1838. (R. C.) E. a. 10. A third specimen of Tuberculated Uterus ; the os and cervix uteri may be seen, as indeed in most cases, unengaged in the disease. £. a. 11. A fourth specimen of the same disease, in which the tubercular growths have not reached so large a size as in the former instances. E. a. 12. Uterus, in the walls of which growths of fleshy tu- bercle are just commencing, while a small polypoid tu- mour projects from the posterior wall into the cavity of the organ. E. a. 13. Uterus, from the anterior wall of which a fleshy tubercle is projecting; the tumour has been laid open, and contains many portions of bone in its substance. E. a. 14. Dropsy of both Fallopian Tubes, from a woman whose hi.story is unknown. E. a. 15. Uterus affected with Fungoid disease, hemorrhage from which, eventually killed the patient. The disease ha.s destroyed the anterior part of the cervix and body