The students guide to surgical diagnosis / by Christopher Heath.

  • Heath, Christopher, 1835-1905.
Date:
1883
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Credit: The students guide to surgical diagnosis / by Christopher Heath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sebaceous. Fatty. Abscess. cystic in character, and is closely attached to the coccyx, being said to originate in the coccygeal gland of Luschka, rumours. 510. An elastic, slowly growing tumour of the back may be sebaceous, fatty, or an abscess. A sebaceous tumour is clearly connected with the skin, which does not glide over it as in the case of a fatty tumour, and frequently presents a black spot, which is the obstructed orifice of the sebaceous duct. A fathj tumour may be lobulated, and thus distinguishable from an abscess, but often it is not so, and nothing but a jjuncture with an aspirator will decide the question. A feature common to both is the tendency to shift slowly lower down the trunk by gravitation. 511. A well-developed localised inflamma- tion of the skin and subcutaneous tissue, vary- ing in size from a crown-piece to a cheese-plate, red and cedematous, and probably having small apertures through which pus is discharged, constitutes a carbuncle, the favourite position of which is the nape of the neck or between the shoulders. 512. The deformity caused by the projection of the vertebras in angular curvature, due to caries of the spine, can hardly be overlooked in an advanced case, but may be i-eadily missed Anthrax. Caries of spiue.