Volume 20

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-
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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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    oo hepatic tissue, scrapings of which contained large numbers of coccidia (Coccidium oviforme). [Mounted in 50 °/0 glycerine.] Presented by G. II. Morrell, Esq., M.P., 1906. 4940. A slice from the liver of a rabbit. The section is riddled with small cavities, due to the formation of gas in its vessels, a condition sometimes known as u foaming liver.” Of a pure culture of Bacillus aerogenes capsulatus, 2 c.cin. was injected into the auricular vein. Two minutes later the animal was killed, and the body then placed in an incubator at 22° C. for twenty-four hours. The animal at that time was about twice the original size. The sub¬ cutaneous tissue was emphysematous, and there was a large quantity of free gas in the peritoneal cavity. Gas was present in the blood-vessels throughout the body. All the viscera were “ foaming,” but especially the liver, spleen, and kidneys. (L. S. Dudgeon and P. W. G. Sargent, Trans. Path. Soc. vol. lvi. p. 50.) Presented by L. S. Dudgeon, Esq., 1906. TERATOLOGY. 223 A. The anterior portion of a male rabbit showing a condition of facial arrest similar to that shown in many of the foregoing specimens. There is no indication of an eye. A proboscis half an inch in length projects above a hori¬ zontal depression, indicating the position of a buccal opening, although nothing can be passed from the exterior through it. Purchased, 1906. 499 A. A duplicated feather from the wing of a fowl (Buff Orpington). The free portions of the doubled parts are quite separate, but at the attached ends the shafts are lightly adherent for a distance of about half an inch, the line of apposition being clearly indicated by a fine longi¬ tudinal groove which is traceable to the very end of the