Cases of encysted tumours connected with the liver, and of aqueous encysted tumour of the kidney, with a supernumerary gland attached to it / by Caesar Hawkins.

  • Hawkins, Caesar Henry, 1798-1884.
Date:
1833
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Credit: Cases of encysted tumours connected with the liver, and of aqueous encysted tumour of the kidney, with a supernumerary gland attached to it / by Caesar Hawkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    besides the kind at present under consideration, one of which only, resembles them enough to be called an .encysted tumour, and this other order, which is also found in the liver, may be called an hydatid en- cysted tumour. The aqueous encysted tumour, and the hydatid encysted tumour, will thus form two orders of a class, in which may be included three others also, which might properly perhaps be called the sebaceous en- cysted tumours, the bursal encysted tumours, and the congenital encysted tumours; the last three of which, however, do not either of them I believe occur in the liver, and I shall not therefore further allude to them at present; though I must confess there seems to be so much confusion in the terms used in the description of the numerous cases in which cysts are met with in different tumours, that I should feel almost inclined to attempt a practical arrangement of them at some future time, unless the subject is pre- viously taken up by some more competent person. 2dly. I prefer the term aqueous encysted tumour to that of serous encysted tumour, because probably in the origin of all of them the contents are not serum, but nearly pure water, till the secretion has been altered by inflammation and other circumstances. In other situations indeed, the tumours seldom in- crease to any great size without some inflammatory action, in consequence of which albumen is deposited, but it will be seen in the cases I shall subsequently mention that the cysts increase in the liver to a great