Bovine tuberculosis in man : an account of the pathology of suspected cases / by Charles Creighton.

  • Creighton, Charles, 1847-1927.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Bovine tuberculosis in man : an account of the pathology of suspected cases / by Charles Creighton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX A. GIANT-CELLS AS VASO-FORMATIVE CELLS. PAOE (Extracts from two papers by the author, in the Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, JamiaTj IS'Jd, vol. xiii. p. 173, entitled “Further Observations on the Formation of the Placenta in the Guinea- Pig,” and “The Pliysiological Type of the Giant-Cells of Tubercles and Granulations.”) Secondary or additional placenta of Guinea-Pig—Differs from primary or discoid part chiefly on account of its matrix-tissue— Summary of primary decidual hyperplasia, and its adaptations to form discoid placenta—Differences in secondary or deeper vaso- formative process : hyperplasia in a less highly vascularised stratum—Giant-cells entering into the formation of blood- channels—Necrosis of some of the multinuclear blocks of tissue— Blood-channels formed by parallel rows of nuclei—Contrast between vaso-formative process in the superficial and in deep layers of decidua : giant-cells in the latter—Placental giant-cells a physiological type of pathological giant-cells—Vaso-formative process in placenta a clearer analogy than vessel-formation in the embryo—Particular giant-celLs from tulxjrcles compared with particular giant-cells from placenta—Necrosis of giant-cells both in the physiological and in the morbid process indicates failure of their vaso-formative activity—Defective vascularity of prcalucts of inflammation in scrofulous subjects: local tubercu- losis—Mimicry of structure in general tuberculosis . . 105-112 APPENDIX B. ABSTRACTS OF CERTAIN PUBLISHED CASES OF TUBERCULOSIS. Besides abstracts of and references to anomalous cases of tuberculosis published in medical journals and treatises, contains short notes of two original cases not included in the text (pp. 114, 115), one ot them being illustrated by a woodcut of pearl-nodules from under surface of diaphragm 113-119