Volume 3

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

  • Royal College of Surgeons of England. Museum
Date:
1882-
Catalogue details

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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.

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    2187. An epulis, fibro-cellular in structure, and about three- quarters of an inch in its longest diameter. A portion of its surface is superficially ulcerated. It was connected with the gum behind the incisor teeth of the upper jaw of an adult. Presented by Sir IV. Fergusson, 1871. 2188. Sections of a tumour composed of bone and a substance like fibro-cartilage, of irregular shape, about an inch in its chief diameter, and covered with mucous membrane. It was removed from the alveolus of the upper jaw of a lady. A bristle is passed into the cancellous osseous substance of the base by which the tumour was attached. Hunterian. 2189. “ A small circumscribed tumour from the inside of the mouth.”—(Hunterian MS. Catalogued) In structure it is like that last described. 2190. u A tumour, extracted from the inside of a lady’s mouth.” * «/ —(Hunterian MS. Catalogue.) It is almost exactly like that last described. 2191. An epulis, divided to show in its interior a nodule of bone which was not connected with the alveolus. From the upper jaw of a young woman. (See Heath, ‘ Injuries and Diseases of the Jaws,’ 2nd ed. p. 199, 1872.) Presented by Christopher Heath, Esq., 1868. 2192. A section of an epulis, with a portion of the alveolar margin of the jaw, from within which it grew. It was firm, elastic, purple and grey, and composed of fine fibrous tissue with large irregular multinucleated giant-cells inter¬ spersed. (See Heath, ‘ Injuries and Diseases of the Jaws,’ 2nd edition, p. 200, 1872.) Presented by Christopher Heath, Esq., 1868. c 2