Volume 4

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

  • Paget, James, Sir, 1814-1899.
Date:
1882-1885
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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.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    from the pelvis towards the cortex. Glass rods are insei'ted into the vessels and ureter at the pelvis. From a woman, aged 68, in whom the other kidney was larger than usual and cystic. In the absence of any further history, it seems doubtful how far the extreme diminution of the organ was due to wasting, and how far to chronic inflammatory and fibroid changes. But seeing that the vessels look fairly healthy and that the other kidney Vas larger than usual, it is not improbable that there had been some obstruction to the ureter in some part of its course, and that, in consequence of this, the kidney wasted. Presented by Dr. Thurnam, 1871. 3522. Section of a kidney, iu which the pelvis and calyces are dilated, in consequence of obstruction to the excretion of urine. It shows the gradual flattening and pressing outwards of the points of the papilla3, which take place when the calyces into which they project are dilated around them, and which constitute the first degree of expansion or dilatation of the kidney. A slight elevation at the centre of each dilated calyx marks the former projection of its papilla, and from the centre of this elevated part the usually straight blood-vessels between the urinary tubules are seen radiating towards the circumference ot the calyx. From a boy who had the polypi of the bladder preserved in No. 3693. The preparation is represented iu ' A Treatise on the Urinary Calculus,' by J. G. Crosse, 4to, 1835, pi. xx. fig. 4. Presented by J. G. CrossCy Esq. 3623. The other kidney of the same child. Presented by J. G. Crosse, Esq. 3624. A kidney, with the surrounding substance. The glandular substance of the kidney is reduced to a layer which is not anywhere more than one third of an inch in thickness ; and the papiUse are very small. The surface of the kidney is seamed and puckered, but not granulated. The pelvis and calyces are all much dilated, but they are healthy in